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SANTA CLARA — Which group was precisely the very best? And who was the final to qualify for the NFC playoffs?
The longer the Inexperienced Bay Packers lingered, the nearer it appeared the 49ers would get to an NFC Divisional Spherical sport Saturday night time at Levi's Stadium.
However the 49ers offense turned it on when it wanted to remain alive.
Christian McCaffrey scored on a 6-yard landing run with 67 seconds left to arrange the profitable factors in a 24-21 victory over the Packers.
Linebacker Dre Greenlaw had two interceptions, together with one within the last minute to seal the win.
The 49ers advance to the NFC Championship Recreation on Sunday, Jan. 28 towards the winner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers-Detroit Lions sport at Ford Discipline on Sunday.
Listed below are three takeaways from the 49ers' Recreation 10 playoff sport towards the Packers.
Purdy's Fights
Professional Bowl quarterback Brock Purdy and the 49ers offense have been fully out of sync all night time.
Was it a layoff? Was it rust? No, it was simply unhealthy execution and a foul sport general.
Purdy was both off track or not on the identical web page along with his supposed targets. Or fairly a mixture of each.
The 49ers acquired off to a tough begin and by no means acquired significantly better…till late within the fourth quarter.
Purdy engineered a 12-play, 69-yard drive that McCaffrey capped with a landing run to provide the 49ers the profitable factors.
Purdy completed the sport with 23 completions on 39 makes an attempt for 252 yards and one landing go.
Purdy failed on a number of early passes, together with a first-down throw over the center to Brandon Aiyuk that would and will have been intercepted.
Regardless of dominating early, the 49ers took a 7-3 lead with 8:42 left within the second quarter when Purdy discovered tight finish George Kittle open towards Packers security Darnell Savage for a 32-yard landing.
Deebo sidelined with harm
Large receiver Deebo Samuel suffered an harm on the 49ers' fourth down and was unable to proceed.
And the 49ers' offense hasn't appeared the identical — identical to it did earlier within the season once they misplaced three straight video games whereas he was out.
Now his standing for the remainder of the playoffs is questionable.
Samuel caught a go within the first quarter for 9 yards and was tackled by Packers inside linebackers Quay Walker and De'Vondre Campbell. The star was shaken up and ultimately taken to the medical tent on the 49ers sideline to be evaluated for a head harm.
Samuel was cleared for a concussion however continued to be bothered by a left shoulder harm and went to the locker room later within the first half. When the 49ers got here out of their locker room to open the third quarter, Samuel was not in uniform and was formally ejected for the remainder of the sport.
Samuel had two receptions for twenty-four yards within the restricted time he was within the sport.
Within the first half of the 49ers' Week 6 sport towards the Cleveland Browns, Samuel suffered a hairline fracture in his left shoulder. He was sat out the second half of that sport and missed the following two (each losses) towards the Minnesota Vikings and Cincinnati Bengals.
Packers missed probabilities
Inexperienced Bay dominated for many of the first half and led for many of the sport, however didn't have a lot to point out for it resulting from many missed alternatives.
The one purpose the sport was shut within the second half was as a result of the Packers couldn't end drives. Their three first-half drives led to turnovers on downs sandwiched between two brief area objectives.
Packers working again Aaron Jones had success on the bottom, which opened the door for Jordan Love to search out open receivers with go performs. Love, who accomplished 21 of 34 passes for 194 yards and two touchdowns with two interceptions, had success concentrating on 49ers cornerback Ambry Thomas through the sport.
Inexperienced Bay determined to get the opening kickoff after profitable the toss and went on a powerful 14-play drive that took up greater than half of the primary quarter.
However the Packers couldn't get into the tip zone and settled for a brief area aim after Charvarius Ward picked off Love's go to Romeo Doubs ultimately zone.
Then Purdy delivered a giveaway to the Packers, however Savage couldn't hold what ought to have been a simple catch.
The Packers' subsequent lengthy drive was halted on the 49ers' 14-yard line when Love was stopped on a fourth-and-1 sneak try by the quarterback.
And ultimately, Inexperienced Bay settled for an additional area aim after their third journey within the purple zone.
When the primary half ended, the Packers held the lead in virtually each statistical class, however nonetheless led 7-6.
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