Vikings snatch late win over Browns in London

The Minnesota Vikings denied Dillon Gabriel victory on his first NFL start as they snatched a 21-17 win over the Cleveland Browns at Tottenham.

Rookie Gabriel replaced veteran Joe Flacco as Cleveland's starting quarterback in midweek and his second touchdown pass helped the Browns into a 17-14 lead late in the third quarter.

Cleveland still led by three as Minnesota got the ball back with three minutes left in the first of this year's three NFL games in London.

But after almost fighting back in last week's 24-21 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Dublin, the Vikings again showed great character to put themselves in position to win despite playing their back-up quarterback behind a depleted offensive line.

With 25 seconds left, Carson Wentz - making his third start in place of the injured JJ McCarthy - found Jordan Addison in the corner of the end zone to put Minnesota in front.

And Cleveland were unable to pull off a rescue act at the death as the Vikings celebrated a morale-boosting victory in front of a crowd of 61,082.

Sunday's victory also meant the Vikings avoided back-to-back defeats as they became the first NFL team to play two games in a foreign country in the same season.

More to follow.