Ravens and Texans progress in NFL play-offs

The Houston Texans' defence stunned the Los Angeles Chargers to advancement to week 2 of the NFL play-offs.

Chargers backmost Justin Herbert was intercepted conscionable 3 times during the 17-game regular season.

But helium was intercepted 4 times connected Saturday unsocial arsenic the Texans came from down to footwear disconnected Wildcard Weekend with a 32-12 victory.

Defences dominated the archetypal fractional successful Houston, earlier the crippled burst into beingness with the hosts snatching a 10-6 pb close earlier half-time.

The Texans past intercepted Herbert connected successive drives, returning the archetypal for a touchdown to spell 20-6 up precocious successful the 3rd 4th and adding a tract extremity from the latter.

Los Angeles rallied but Joe Mixon ran successful Houston's 2nd violative touchdown to publication their spot successful adjacent week's Divisional Round.

This play Herbert became conscionable the 2nd subordinate successful NFL past with astatine slightest 500 walk attempts and 3 oregon less interceptions.

He finished strongly, with the Chargers winning their past 3 games to extremity with a 11-6 record, which was amended than Houston's (10-7).

After kicking tract goals connected their archetypal 2 possessions, Los Angeles led 6-0 until a singular play conscionable implicit 2 minutes earlier half-time.

Houston backmost CJ Stroud fumbled a drawback close successful beforehand of his ain extremity portion but recovered it earlier scrambling to the close and picking retired Xavier Hutchinson connected halfway.

Stroud followed that up with a 37-yard walk to Nico Collins and the brace connected again for the opening touchdown for Houston, who had location vantage aft winning their division.

The Chargers got the shot backmost with 58 seconds near successful the fractional yet the Texans' defence forced them to spell three-and-out and Stroud got Houston into field-goal scope for Ka'imi Fairbairn to convert.

Fairbairn kicked different tract extremity aft half-time earlier Herbert's walk towards Ladd McConkey was a small high, allowing information Eric Murray to tally it backmost for a 38-yard score.

After Fairbairn's 3rd tract goal, Herbert recovered McConkey connected halfway and helium streaked wide for an 86-yard touchdown, but Los Angeles' effort astatine an other constituent summed up their night.

Cameron Dicker's footwear was blocked and Houston's D'Angelo Ross recovered the escaped shot to tally it into the Chargers' endzone and marque it 25-12.

Mixon ran successful a 17-yard touchdown to decorativeness with 106 rushing yards portion Collins had 122 receiving yards and Derek Stingley Jr claimed 2 interceptions.