HIGHLIGHTS: How Premier League Middlesbrough survived an almighty FA Cup scare against Oxford United

CRISTHIAN STUANI came off the bench to deny League One Oxford a place in the draw for the FA Cup quarter-finals as Premier League Middlesbrough survived a major scare to triumph 3-2 at the Riverside Stadium.
By The Newsroom
Published 19th Feb 2017, 17:56 BST
Updated 28th Feb 2017, 12:09 BST

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Middlesbrough's Cristhian Stuani celebrates scoring his side's late winning goal. Picture: Richard Sellers/PAMiddlesbrough's Cristhian Stuani celebrates scoring his side's late winning goal. Picture: Richard Sellers/PA
Middlesbrough's Cristhian Stuani celebrates scoring his side's late winning goal. Picture: Richard Sellers/PA

Aitor Karanka’s men looked to be heading for a replay at the Kassam Stadium after squandering a 2-0 lead inside a single madcap second-half minute, but Uruguay international Stuani came to the rescue with an 86th-minute winner to secure a place in the last eight for the first time since 2009.

Grant Leadbitter’s penalty and January signing Rudy Gestede’s first goal for the club had given Boro a commanding half-time lead, but Chris Maguire’s superb free-kick and Antonio Martinez’s equaliser just seconds later left the result in the melting pot.

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