Super Bowl final score: Patriots beat Rams in lowest-scoring Super Bowl in history
The New England Patriots took on the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl 53 in Atlanta in one of the most watched TV events in the world
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Your support makes all the difference.The New England Patriots outlasted the Los Angeles Rams in the lowest-scoring game in Super Bowl history.
Sony Michel's fourth-quarter touchdown proved the defining play of a game that was dominated by defences. The win, a sixth, sees the Pats equal the Pittsburgh Steelers for the most titles ever and gives quarterback Tom Brady the most-ever Super Bowls for a player.
Here's how it all played out in Atlanta:
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The captains of both teams are in the middle which means only one thing. It's time for the coin toss.
The call from the Pats is heads... and it's a tail. The Rams elect to defer and the Pats will open with the ball.
A real surprise, that.
McVay doesn't want TB12 to have the ball first thing second-half. He'll just have it straight away instead.
Here. We. Go.
Greg the leg hoons it into the night sky and we're underway and Patterson brings it back to the 40 or near enough.
Strong starting field position for the Pats.
Sony Michel gets the ball first up and it's a good one, the former Georgia man rampaging yp the middle for 13.
Patterson on the end around next up and New England are motoring early here. They're over midfield already.
Michel gets it again on second down and that's five more and a first down.
They're rolling.
TB back to pass for the first time in the game and the ball is fired to the right sideline in the direction of Chris Hogan... and it's picked.
Cory Littleton comes up with it flying in from his linebacker spot. Massive.
That was Brady's first pass after four straight rushes and it's picked off.
Time for Jared Goff.
What a momentum swing to start this game. Wow.
Here he is then, Rams looking to start as they mean to go on.
But that doesn't go to plan.
A third down in a snap and Goff looks for Josh Reynolds on the crosser but it's not enough, it falls incomplete and they punt.
New England will take that. Johnny Hekker's kick is solid but not spectacular.
Brady has a second shot at it.
Here's that Brady pick.
It's not the best pass and not Hogan, in truth, didn't do a lot wrong.
Great heads up play from Littleton.
That's the first time Brady has thrown an interception on the opening drive for the Patriots all season, let alone the first pass he's thrown.
He becomes the third starting quarterback to throw an interception on his first pass in the Super Bowl.
Jim Kelly (XXVI) and Ron Jaworski (XV) are the others.
Brady then, after two next to nothing plays on first and second down, looks for his old pal Julian Edelman on the left side and that one goes for 10 and they'll move the chains.
Michel gets it on first down again but Ndamukong Suh is all over that and stuffs it behind the line. Suh could have a big big game tonight with running mate Aaron Donald likely to see a tonne of double teams.
Nickel Robey-Coleman lights up Rex Burkhead on the next play but they zebras call it helmet to helmet and this one is going back 15 yards.
Brady looks Burkhead's way again and that's a first on the left sideline. Pats on the move.
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