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Portsmouth 1 Stoke City 2 SALIF DIAO left Portsmouth with a sense of impending doom as he hit an injury-time strike that could prove to be the last-ever goal at Fratton Park.
Pompey head to the High Court in eight days to discover whether their days as a football club are over.
And you would not rule it out after seeing Stoke substitute Diao twist the knife in here.
The Senegal international had not scored for nearly SIX YEARS ahead of this fixture.
But after Stoke had been reduced to 10 men following Andy Wilkinson's 73rd-minute sending-off, Diao dealt Pompey a killer blow.
Pandora Beads Wholesale To rub salt into their wounds, Portsmouth had a legitimate goal ruled out earlier in the game when Frederic Piquionne was wrongly adjudged to have crept offside.
Manager Avram Grant said: "We are living day-to-day and people here are doing everything to secure the future of the club. I have to be optimistic.
"Today was disappointing, though, because we scored two good goals and are now eight points from safety.
"The situation here is not good, but while there is a chance we will fight."
Ahead of kick-off goalkeeper Asmir Begovic was handed Portsmouth's player-of-the-month award for December. He now plays for Stoke and collected his prize wearing the strip of his new club. You couldn't make it up.
It perfectly illustrates the shambolic state Pompey are in at the moment. The south coast club are pounds 60million in debt and suffered a setback 24 hours before the game when a request for permission to sell players outside of the transfer window fell on deaf ears.
Their existence is in real jeopardy as they search for another new owner ahead of that High Court date on March 1. And even if they do get through the drama, they must then go on to win at least six matches to stand any chance of survival in the top flight.
This was never going to be easy, especially with Stoke's throw-in specialist Rory Delap in town, ready to launch another spanner into the works.
Pompey, who had scored just once in their last four league outings, came through a nervy start before having a goal wrongly ruled out for offside.
Thomas Sorensen has kept his place in between the Stoke sticks despite Begovic's pounds 3.25m arrival, but was helpless as Piquionne lifted the ball over him after collecting a through ball from Quincy Owusu-Abeyie.
Ref Mike Dean disallowed it on the advice of his assistant - but replays showed the forward was level with Potters full-back Wilkinson.
But Pompey got a deserved breakthrough in the 35th minute. Owusu-Abeyie played a one-two with Jamie O'Hara before smashing an effort goalwards.
Sorensen could only push the ball across the six-yard box, and Piquionne arrived to squeeze the ball home from a tight angle to mark his fourth goal since a loan move from Lens.
Steer Pompey were heading for a fifth win of the season.
Concord Replica Watch But it started to go wrong when Tony Pulis' men pulled back on level terms within five minutes of the restart.
Potters centre-back Robert Huth jumped above Pompey defender Marc Wilson, a Sunderland target, to steer home from a Glenn Whelan co
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