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Conor Chaplin scored a stoppage-time winner as Portsmouth stunned Middlesbrough to boost their Championship survival hopes and deal a huge blow to the Teessiders’ automatic promotion bid.<\/b><\/p>\n
On-loan Ipswich forward Chaplin struck in the seventh minute of time added on from Adrian Segecic’s corner to score from Portsmouth’s only shot on target at the Riverside Stadium.<\/p>\n
Middlesbrough have slipped to fourth place in the table and are three points behind second-placed Ipswich, having played two games more.<\/p>\n
Chaplin’s late, late winner will have pleased his parent club but perhaps not as much as it delighted his current side – it hauled Portsmouth back out of the bottom three and they are a point clear of Oxford with a game in hand.<\/p>\n
The defeat further damages Middlesbrough’s hopes of going up automatically – Kim Hellberg’s side have now managed just three points from their past six games, their worst run of the season.<\/p>\n
This was a proper smash and grab raid by Portsmouth and as poor as Middlesbrough were, they still managed eight shots on target.<\/p>\n
But they could not beat Pompey goalkeeper Nicolas Schmid as John Mousinho’s Pompey side ended their eight-game run without a win at a critical time.<\/p>\n
Schmid saved a shot from Alan Browne and a weak header from Dael Fry in a fairly pedestrian first half.<\/p>\n
Hellberg tried to inject some vigour into his Middlesbrough side, bringing on Sontje Hansen and Luke Ayling at half-time, and Riley McGree had a shot from a narrow angle saved by Schmid.<\/p>\n
The goalkeeper was in no mood to be beaten and he denied Browne, when the midfielder attempted to chip him, before he frustrated McGree again.<\/p>\n
Middlesbrough pressed desperately to find a way through and Hansen had a shot saved before Andre Dozzell headed his second effort off the line in the first minute of stoppage time.<\/p>\n
The home fans urged their side on but it was Portsmouth who broke the deadlock thanks to Chaplin’s second goal of the season, a strike that could have a massive impact at both ends of the table come the final reckoning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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