MADRID 8 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles will play this Sunday (00.30 on Monday peninsular time in Spain) in the New Orleans Superdome Caesars the LIX edition of the Super Bowl, the grand final of the NFL, the American football league, which ATISBA a balanced game where history and revenge are mixed.
The 2024 NFL season comes to its conclusion with the fight to know which team will lift the Vince Lombardi trophy, with a slight favoritism for the chiefs, especially for its status as current dominating dynasty of this sport and that they seek not only its fifth Champion ring and the fourth in the last six seasons, but also become the first team to chain three consecutive.
Those of Andy Reid, champions of the American Conference and signed 15-2 in the regular season, have the endorsement of the experience, since they have been in the Super Bowl in five of the last six editions. Only 2022 were lost and they have only fallen into the 2021 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the historic Tom Brady.
In front, the Eagles, champions of the National Conference and that were the third best team of the year, with a balance of 14-3 and that surely arrive at New Orleans endorsed as the best defense of the campaign. It will be the fifth Super Bowl for Philadelphia, who wants his second Vince Lombardi and achieve it before a known rival in front of the one who hopes to take revenge.
And both were seen relatively recently. In Arizona, in February 2023, they won the chiefs with great comeback after the break and for a tight 38-35 in a Super Bowl marked for being the first in the story that faced two brothers, the Kelce, on the pitch .
From that special game only repeats Travis, the powerful and media closed of Kansas City, because Jason has already retired with Philadelphia, but they are both the stellar Patrick Mahomes and the thriving Jalen Hurts, the two ‘quarters’ headlines, players about the that many of the looks in the games usually fall and more in the Super Bowl, although they could snatch Saquon Barkley.
The ‘Running Back’ of the Eagles has been one of the sensations of the campaign, ending third in the vote of the ‘MVP’, surpassed by Josh Allen (Bills) and Lamar Jackson (Ravens). The corridor exceeded 2,000 yards in the regular season and in the postseason has followed at a sensational level with 442, so in Caesars Superdome aspires to beat the 1998 record of Terrell Davis of 2,476 in a full year of NFL.
Stoping to Barkley will be one of Steve Spagnuelo’s main tasks, the renowned defensive coordinator of Kansas City, who does not hide that stopping is one of his greatest headaches. “We have the hands occupied with Saquon, it is quite elite, there is nothing that I cannot do, it will be the most difficult challenge we have had in the land game this year,” he warned to the media.
Mahomes seeks to get closer to Brady
It must also bother everything possible to a 26 -year -old ‘quarterback’ from Nick Sirianni and to which their defense must protect in the best possible way. If you get to avoid players like Georges Karlaftis, in addition to being able to run, one of their ‘weapons’, you can connect with AJ Brown, Dallas Goedert and Devonta Smith.
But if the chiefs have Spagnuolo, the Eagles have as a defensive coordinator the veteran and also reputed Vic Fangio, whose work has made Philadelphia gone from a somewhat weak defense to a very solid Great since it must stop the attack commanded by the stellar Patrick Mahomes.
The 29 -year -old ‘quartback’ has returned to upload its benefits at the time of truth to command Kansas City to a new Super Bowl and, above all, Jalen Hurts and Zack Baun will have the task especially that he is uncomfortable from The principle and that cannot launch or run, a facet in which it also stands out. If you succeed again, you will add your fourth champion ring and join other ‘QB’ such as Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw, still three from Tom Brady, although he will be the first player under 30 years to do so.
Mohomes keeps his best partner in the field as Travis Kelce is, well held in the conference final for the defense of the Bills, but another veteran who knows how to appear when he is most needed, well seconded by other players such as the Rookie Open Receiver Xavier Worthy. And to replicate the land attack by Saquon Barkley, Kareem Hunt and Isaiah Pacheco, whose performance has been altered by an injury.