Peterborough United 2-1 Queens Park Rangers: Siriki Dembele scores stoppage-time winner

Siriki Dembele has scored the winner in Peterborough's past two matches

Siriki Dembele snatched an injury-time winner as Peterborough registered back-to-back victories for the first time this season.

Ilias Chair put QPR ahead directly from a corner early in the second half, only for teenager Harrison Burrows to score Posh's equaliser.

The home side created the better chances and finally gained their reward a minute into added time when Dembele squeezed his finish past Seny Dieng.

It was Rangers' fourth consecutive away defeat and nudged them out of the top six, while Peterborough remain in 20th place.

Fresh from their first away success of the season against Hull, Peterborough began brightly and found the net in a goalmouth scramble, but Mark Beevers' effort was ruled out for an infringement by Sammie Szmodics.

Szmodics volleyed a chance over the bar later during a scrappy, scoreless first half, while Posh team-mate Jorge Grant's attempt from distance whistled into the side netting.

The home side also threatened just after the restart, with Dieng pouncing to foil Dembele - but that prompted a QPR counter-attack and they won a corner, which Chair swept inside the far post to open the scoring.

However, Posh substitute Idris Kanu began the move that quickly drew his side level, picking out Szmodics and, although the midfielder miscued his shot, Burrows drove the loose ball into the net.

Although Lyndon Dykes went close for QPR, it was Posh who continued to threaten more regularly and Kanu fired wide before Dieng thwarted Jack Taylor, with Dembele putting the rebound over.

But the 25-year-old - who had also scored Posh's winner against Hull in midweek - made amends as he latched onto Oliver Norburn's pass and steered his shot beyond Dieng.

Peterborough manager Darren Ferguson:

"It was a great game of football. I would have said that even if we hadn't won.

"We knew our shape had to be solid, but that in transition we could play through them.

"Wednesday was big for them - they needed that win because our home form has been good. You could feel the relief in the players and it showed today.

"It was a great finish by Burrows - he was very good again. And that's what Dembs is about. He's always a threat and he's a really good finisher."

QPR manager Mark Warburton told BBC London 94.9:

"We've been very good often this season but when you don't have a good day at the office, be honest. If you're below your best, then you take a point on the road - that'd be four points from two games - and move on.

"We've let ourselves down by not managing the game well.

"I felt we were in the ascendancy in the second half but Peterborough had two or three good chances through countering and through us making poor decisions in possession.

"As they try and go for the equaliser, they should open up and we should hurt them and we didn't do that."