Roy McFarland was delighted with yesterday's victory at the Racecourse Ground, the first away win since the promotion-clinching win at Rochdale last April and one which puts Cambridge United in the last 16 of the FA Cup.

"It's our first away win of the season. It's long overdue and was hard fought - we've come off with very tired players who had to defend well," he said in today's Sport First.

In the Sunday Express report he added, "We were lucky to survive the early barrage. Our worry now is hanging on to Butler and Benjamin. We've had offers but they stay until the right money comes."

He admitted the goals - credited to in-demand strike force Trevor Benjamin and Martin Butler (left) although Benjamin's was an own goal by a flustered Wrexham defender - would make it harder to hold on to the pair.

"They'll get more attention because of this," he said in Sport First. "As the manager of Cambridge United, I don't want them to go. Whether we can hold onto them is a different matter. It would be lovely to think that we could but sadly we can't and eventually someone, I think, will come in and put the money down that we want for the players.

"We've had offers for them, including from the Premiership, but they've got on with it and done their job which is pleasing for me as the manager. Obviously if we get a good cup draw it does help. When we're losing about half a million pounds a year we have to try and recoup that somehow. The best way we can do that is by selling players - that's how we survive."'

Opposite number Brian Flynn heard a small group of Wrexham fans calling for his head after the defeat and admitted, "They are difficult times we are in at the moment. We have to battle and that's what we will do. After the Middlesbrough game I was a hero wasn't I - they're the highs and lows of football."

Wrexham have gone 16 league games without a victory in Division Two and yesterday they could reflect on a host of missed chances. Flynn added, "It's all about taking your chances. The game could have been over in the first 15 minutes if we'd taken ours. They had three good chances and took two of them. We said all along this was going to be twice as hard as Boro."

The downside of the day is that due to Chesterfield's league win over Brentford, Cambridge United are now bottom of Division Two.