Super Bowl 2022 LIVE: Los Angeles Rams vs Cincinnati Bengals result as Cooper Kupp wins MVP

This time Burrow finds Tyler Boyd on the left sideline, but the receiver is tackled inbounds. The Bengals call their first timeout of the half as they prepare for a 3rd and medium.

Aaron Donald gets hands on Joe Burrow as he pursues the Bengals quarterback rolling out. Incomplete. 2nd and 10.

The Bengals were penalised for taunting in the aftermath of that Jessie Bates interception, with a non-dressed player joining their celebrations.

Joe Burrow thus starts from his own ten-yard line, and hits a five-yard completion followed by a six-yard toss to CJ Uzomah releasing after providing chip help, moving the chains.

The Rams go tempo, and then slow things down. The Bengals drop eight bodies out, rushing only three, which affords Matthew Stafford plenty of time.

He rolls out to his left, directing downfield traffic, heaving for the endzone...and Jessie Bates catches the fly-ball! Van Jefferson was the intended recipient, but Bates was in perfect coverage, sliding across from the central zone of what looks like Cover 3, and he tracks it all the way to come down with the game’s first defensive turnover to send us to the two minute warning.

Odell Beckham comes out of the blue medical tent and heads elsewhere, possibly towards the tunnel for further examination.

On the field, a false start, incompletion and short Cam Akers run leave the Rams facing an unfavourable 3rd and 14.

That will really affect the Rams’ offensive plan. They now don’t have a proven after-the-catch receiver outside of Cooper Kupp.

So Sean McVay gets funky on third down. Some pre-snap motion and then a tight bunch on the right of formation, two receivers clearing space for tight end Brycen Hopkins, who runs a curl and catches for a first down! Looked like a Bengals blitz, but as he has done all season, Stafford cuts it up.

Oh no! A Matthew Stafford pass hits Odell Beckham right in the hands but the wide receiver drops it, and immediately clutches his knee as he hits the deck! It’s a non-contact injury but Beckham was in instant pain as he planted his left leg - that could well be a damaged ligament of some sort.

Beckham grimaces as the trainers help him off. He is able to walk, assisted, and will try to battle through it given the stage, but that did not look encouraging.

That was Joe Mixon’s first pass in the NFL, by the way. You always have to have something up your sleeve in the Super Bowl.

Over to Los Angeles. The Rams gain six yards through Cam Akers on first down, and then Van Jefferson creates some yards after the catch to move the chains.