Late Portsmouth Strike Sinks Struggling Middlesbrough

In a dramatic turn of events, Portsmouth scored the winning goal in the seventh minute of stoppage time, giving their Championship survival hopes a significant boost and inflicting major damage on Middlesbrough's fading automatic promotion bid. The visitors, who had been winless in eight games, managed to break their drought with a late goal, while Middlesbrough's winless streak now stands at six games. Despite dominating the ball in the first half, Middlesbrough struggled to create meaningful openings, with their only shot on target coming from Alan Browne, which was saved by Portsmouth's Nicolas Schmid. Portsmouth, on the other hand, looked set to fall into the relegation zone until their late winner, which keeps them a point and a place above the bottom three. Middlesbrough had 20 shots compared to Portsmouth's three, but their inability to score has now resulted in just four goals in their last six games. Portsmouth's manager, John Mousinho, described the result as 'amazing' and acknowledged that his team got lucky, while Middlesbrough's manager, Kim Hellberg, expressed disappointment and frustration with his team's performance, calling it 'poor' and 'boring'.