The 49ers advance to the NFC championship after a crazy finish in Green Bay on Saturday night.
playoffs, now for a second-straight year at home. The San Francisco 49ers beat the top-seeded Packers, 13-10, on a frigid and snowy Lambeau Field on Saturday night in a divisional playoff game.
The 49ers will now hit the road for the third-straight weekend to face either the Los Angeles Rams or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who square off Sunday afternoon in a chilly but sunny Tampa, Florida. The Bengals will travel next Sunday to face the winner of tomorrow's game between the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs.
Late in the game, as the Packers held a 10-3 lead, the 49ers forced a San Francisco punt deep in Green Bay territory. The punt was blocked, and Talanoa Hufanga returned it 5 yards for a touchdown to tie the game, which stunned the rather raucous crowd at Lambeau."No doubt," lead announcer Joe Buck responded.
Green Bay took an early lead in the first quarter—when the weather was just 12 degrees and no snow on the ground—when running back A.J. Dillon scored on a 6-yard carry. It capped a 10-play, 69-yard drive that chewed more than five and a half minutes of clock.
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