Cambridge United: FA Cup win shows what a good team next boss will inherit - Barry Corr

Interim boss Barry Corr made 51 appearances for Cambridge United during his playing career

Cambridge United's FA Cup win over Fleetwood showed what a good team the next head coach will be taking on, according to interim boss Barry Corr.

The U's scored three goals in the first 15 minutes of a 4-0 win to set up an away tie against Championship club Blackburn Rovers in the third round.

Corr has already ruled out the possibility of succeeding Mark Bonner on a permanent basis.

"They've begun informal talks for the next person to come in," he said.

"I'd imagine there'll be formal talks over the next few days but someone will be in soon and they'll take on a good team."

Cambridge-born Bonner was sacked last week following a run of three successive League One defeats which left them 18th in the table.

But they shrugged off that poor form with an early-goals salvo against Fleetwood which effectively had their second-round tie won by half-time.

"They took on all the messages we spoke about, being really progressive, playing forward, all the things we are good at. When you see a really good Cambridge United performance, you see that type of performance," Corr told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

"If you have the intention to be really front foot from the outset, be really aggressive, you can get a little bit of confidence from that, when your first thought is always positive, so it's great credit to the players."

He continued: "That's the standard they're capable of and that's what they have to produce every day."

Following their poor recent league results, Corr said he told the players not to focus on the need to win the game, but on the elements of a performance needed to bring that about.

"I told them not to talk about winning, or think about winning, but talk about doing all the things that make you win, all the processes, centre-halves being really competitive and winning duels, wide players getting at full-backs and putting crosses in the box, all the things that lead to the outcome."

He was delighted by the performance of Cambridge's front men, especially Elias Kachunga, who scored only his second goal for the club - and first since mid-August.

"He's a player that can probably play a few positions but I would say number 10 is when he is at his best. He's very clever, he understands pressing triggers, understands when to link and when to run beyond, and he was awesome," Corr said.

Cambridge suffered a setback when top scorer Fejiri Okenabirhie had to go off in the 22nd minute, having netted their third goal, and they are still waiting to find out the full extent of the injury.

Corr added: "The medical team managed to book him in really quickly and he'll have that scanned."

Defender Michael Morrison said the players had taken on board Corr's advice to be the "best version" of themselves but were baffled as to why the win - and manner of it - had been so long coming.

"Why has it taken the manager to leave for us to win 4-0? We'd like to have done that sooner," Morrison added.

Normally when a manager leaves, there's a bit of relief sometimes but for me personally - and I think I speak for a lot of the group, they really respected Bons and are disappointed we couldn't get the best out of ourselves for him.

" I appreciate everything he's done at the football club, not just this season, but over a 20-year period.

"It was a difficult time for everyone (after his departure) but we're all professionals and whoever comes in to the job, there's so much going for this club on the pitch and off it."