Carl Ikeme wants Wolves to push on

Goalkeeper Carl Ikeme wants Wolves to push on in the next few weeks as he looked to take the positives out of Sunday's derby draw with Birmingham City.

Wolves battled hard to earn a point after coming under intense pressure in the second-half at Molineux.

The draw extended their unbeaten run at Molineux to three matches – equalling their best run of the season.

And Ikeme said: "There were definitely some positives to take.

"The lads defended well, we kept a clean sheet, and it's two wins and a draw at home now where our home form hasn't been good enough before.

"We would have liked to have been more threatening in the second half and created more and we found it difficult to get up the pitch and produce any sustained pressure.

"The gaffer said that to us after the game, that we needed to keep more pressure on as we ended up getting deeper as the game became stretched.

"There is something to take on from it, and we just need to continue to push on. We probably edged the first-half in the game.

"We had a few half chances and Sav's header was decent but in the second half Blues were on top.

"It was end-to-end at times and they had the better chances without hitting the target all that much.

"You always want to win a game but sometimes you have to take a point and move on."

It's been a tough season defensively for Wolves, who have regularly leaked goals – conceding 50 in 37 matches, the eighth worst in the league – and struggled to eradicate mistakes.

But they were delighted to keep their first Molineux clean sheet of 2016 on Sunday – a shut-out that owed plenty Ikeme.

His excellent save denied his old team-mate David Davis, the Smethwick-born midfielder who came through the academy at Wolves, in the second-half.

The 29-year-old goalkeeper, who has been called up for Nigeria's Africa Cup of Nations double-header against Egypt later this month, had few other saves to make it the game.

And he said: "You have to stay switched on as a goalkeeper when you don't necessarily have all that much to do.

"If you are in the thick of the action all the time, you can maybe be more fluent in making saves.

"I was happy to make that save from Dave – he's a good friend of mine and, although I didn't realise it was him until after, I wouldn't have wanted to let him score!

"I was happy to keep a clean sheet, we haven't kept enough in all honesty, and now we move on to the next game."

Meanwhile, Wolves drew 1-1 with Swansea City in their Under-21 Premier League clash at AFC Telford United last night.

Wolves' Bradley Reid, a former Telford loanee, scored his first goal since a long injury lay-off with a 32nd-minute header.

But they were pegged back by Owain Jones' 71st-minute equaliser for the Swans.