Daniel James has enjoyed a week to savour but the Swansea City winger wants to make sure his goalscoring debut against Notts County is no one-off.

The 20-year-old attacker marked his first-team bow with a calm finish in the FA Cup replay against the League Two promotion hopefuls as Carlos Carvalhal’s men set up their fifth-round clash with Sheffield Wednesday in fine style.

For the highly-rated Wales Under-20 cap it marked the best moment of what has been a difficult campaign.

After starring in the Swans Under-23s double success, featuring for Wales at the Toulon Tournament and even receiving a call-up to the senior Dragons squad, James had hoped to kick on this term.

But a frustrating loan spell with Shrewsbury, which ended before the summer transfer window had closed, and niggling injury worries set him back.

But the Hull-born forward has handled the disappointment admirably, and has his sights set on featuring against the Owls in front of his family this weekend.

“It doesn’t get much better than that,” he said of his debut.

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“From my point of view it has been a frustrating season, I went on loan at the start of the season and it did not really work out.

“But since I have come back I have had plenty of support, the club have shown their belief in me.

“You can get to a place with situations like that, and with injuries, where you wonder if you believe in yourself and I think I had lost a bit of that.

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“But I have come back and for me it was important to get that experience, those minutes and to score is a dream come true.

“That’s what you are paid for and that’s what you want, to be pulling on that first-team shirt and impress the manager. I have to keep going well and hope I can.

“I’d had a good season last season, I went up to Shrewsbury, I don’t think I was as fit as I would have liked to be and sitting in the stands was tough.

“But I’ve had a word with myself, told myself to bring that experience back and understand there are ups and downs.”

With Sheffield not being too far from the city where James was born and raised before his move to Swansea in 2014, he hopes his family might have the chance to see him in action at Hillsborough this weekend.

And he revealed how recently-appointed Swans boss Carvalhal has regularly exposed academy players to first-team training since his appointment at the end of December.

“You just want more once you’ve had a taste, there have been injuries and a couple of the lads have been cup-tied and it has given some of us younger lads a chance to step up.

“But as soon as you are on the pitch you have to be positive and do what has got you in that position. The gaffer told me he believed in me before I went on and it was really good.

“Since he has come in I have trained with the first team every day and that’s really important to get to know the boys on and off the field as you need to be on their wavelength.

“Even some of the under-18 boys have had a taste of it to get used to it. It shows you what it takes.”