It's a game of three phases, not just offence and defence but special teams too, they all count in this ultimate team sport.

The Rams fired their special teams coordinator in December but it's not helped as that errors was just unacceptable in a Championship game.

And like all champion teams do, Seattle were ruthless in taking advantage of that error, and an 11-point hole is a huge one away at Seattle at the best of times, let alone with a Super Bowl on the line.

Oh no! Disaster for the Rams as Xavier Smith falls over as he's going for the catch and then can't gather the ball in so it bobbles out of his grasp and into the hands of some diving Seahawks special teamers.

The Hawks get it back on the LA 17-yard line.

Sam Darnold goes down on a third down and Seattle have to punt.

Tom Brady
Seven-time Super Bowl winner on FOX

It's fascinating in my mind that the Rams had the ball with about a minute and a half left [to half-time]. At that point, you're not thinking about scoring, you're thinking about how we go in the half maintaining that three-point lead.

If you get to the 50-yard yard, OK, now let's think about a field goal. If you get to the 20-yard line, now let's think about a touchdown.

They end up doing neither, they punt the ball to Seattle and they put together a great drive. Now they go into the half ahead by four and that's exactly what they want, especially getting the ball at the start of the second half. It was poorly managed and poorly played by the Rams.

Hey, guess what? Jaxon-Smith Njigba just took a nice 12-yard catch for a first down - make that 127 yards now on eight catches.

Right then, just 30 minutes away from the Super Bowl and you have to think Seattle are favourites from here - they've got the lead, they've got the ball and they've got the momentum after that fine finish to the first half.

And they've also got Jaxon Smith-Njigba who the Rams just can't cover.

A more detailled look at those JSN numbers... very impressive. He is Seattle's X-factor tonight, seems to catch everything thrown at him.

Jaxon Smith-Njigba is having himself a game - and add that late touchdown to his stats as well.

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One half in the books, who makes the Super Bowl?

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Great first half that with some big ebb and flow - Seattle started off like a train and then the Rams worked their way back into the game, and eventually into the lead.

But they made a mess of closing out the half, throwing two incompletions to stop the clock on what should've been the final drive of the half.

That gave Seattle far too much time left, and Sam Darnold needed just 34 seconds to go 74 yards and put the Seahawks back in front.

After a great fightback the Rams just shot themselves in the foot at the end of the half. Standing with the ball, the lead and 90 seconds left the first things they had to make sure of was that Seattle wouldn't get the ball back with much time left.

And when they not only failed to score but also failed to take much time off the clock then they left themselves open for that quick strike - not as wide open as the left Jaxon Smith-Njigba though...

Tom Brady
Seven-time Super Bowl winner on FOX

I just don't know how you lose track of JSN. When he is in the back field, he is the primary receiving target. None of the alerts came up for the Rams and that is how you can fair catch the ball in the endzone.

George Holani burrows inside the 10-yard line and now it's first and goal Seattle with 30 seconds left.

Jaxon Smith-Njigba runs a lovely route down the middle and Sam Darnold launches a deep ball down to him for a crucial 42-yard gain to get them well into field goal range.

But they're now looking at a touchdown.