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GAME ESSENTIALS: 49ers (15-4) vs. Eagles (15-3) astatine Lincoln Financial Stadium, astatine noon (PT). TV: FOX. Announcers: Kevin Burkhardt (play-by-play), Greg Olson (color commentary), Erin Andrews and Tom Rinaldi (sideline reporting).

ODDS: Eagles -2.5. OVER/UNDER: 45.

SERIES: 49ers pb 19-14-1 (49ers pb playoff matchups 1-0). LAST MEETING: 49ers won 17-11 connected Sept. 19, 2021. LAST PLAYOFF MEETING: 49ers won 14-0 connected Dec. 29, 1996.

It’s league title Sunday for NFL fans, and for the 3rd clip successful 4 years, the San Francisco 49ers are playing a large portion successful it.

The 49ers are in Philadelphia for Sunday’s noon kickoff against the NFL’s champion squad successful the regular season, the Eagles. The Eagles and their raucous fans are acceptable to beryllium a formidable hostile successful the rubric game, with a precise similarly-built roster to the 49ers — but with a precise antithetic benignant of threat astatine quarterback successful Jalen Hurts.

But the 49ers are nary slouches themselves. Winners of 12 straight, the reddish and golden person recovered their violative stride, inactive person 1 of the league’s apical defence and whitethorn person a large mismatch successful the moving game, wherever the 49ers’ discourtesy is the champion successful the NFL, but the Eagles are 1 of the worst astatine stopping the run.

But wellness of their moving backs who cardinal that crippled volition beryllium worthy watching, arsenic midseason commercialized acquisition Christian McCaffrey lone practiced erstwhile with a calf contented and Elijah Mitchell didn’t signifier astatine all. McCaffrey said helium is bully to go, but Mitchell is questionable.

For San Francisco to win, it whitethorn travel down to rookie backmost Brock Purdy, who didn’t look to impress successful grooming camp, but has shined since stepping successful for the injured Jimmy Garoppolo (who himself was stepping successful for the injured archetypal starter Trey Lance). Purdy could go the archetypal rookie backmost to triumph 3 playoff games and beforehand to the Super Bowl if the 49ers triumph today.

Speaking of a imaginable triumph … if the 49ers tin look from their NFL-record 18th league title with their eighth travel to the Super Bowl, they’ll either look the Cincinnati Bengals for a record-tying 3rd clip successful the Super Bowl … oregon they’ll get their eventual changeable astatine revenge against the Kansas City Chiefs, who came from down to bushed them 3 years ago.

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Follow on with our reporters Cam Inman, Jerry McDonald, Alex Simon and columnist Dieter Kurtenbach and different analysts providing their thoughts astir the game.