Super Bowl 2022 LIVE: Los Angeles Rams vs Cincinnati Bengals result as Cooper Kupp wins MVP
The Los Angeles Rams beat the Cincinnati Bengals to win the Super Bowl and the Vince Lombardi Trophy
The Los Angeles Rams won Super Bowl 56 after a rollercoaster game with the Cincinnati Bengals. Cooper Kupp scored the winning touchdown before Aaron Donald made the decisive play in a 23-20 game at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
Quarterback Matthew Stafford threw for three touchdowns as he out duelled Joe Burrow in a see-saw game that went back and forth before LA, on their home field, emerged victorious in the fourth quarter. It is a second Super Bowl win for the Rams, following their first - as the St Louis Rams - back in 1999, as coach Sean McVay makes amends for defeat in the big game three years ago.
Odell Beckham Jr grabbed the opening score in the first quarter before Kupp hauled in his first of the night as the Rams jumped out to an early lead. But the Bengals, who have gone from the foot of the AFC North a year ago all the way to the showpiece game, came roaring back and a pair of Tee Higgins touchdowns either side of half-time saw them come back to lead heading into the fourth.
Crucially though Stafford still had time and on the Rams’ final possession drove all the way down before finding Kupp in the end zone to recapture the advantage. And with time ticking down Donald sacked Burrow on fourth down on the following drive to end the game and spark jubilant scenes in LA.
Super Bowl 56: Eminem, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and more perform half-time Show
Still Dre
Dr Dre displays his skill on the ivories, tinkling the opening refrain of before wandering up the stairs to join Snoop Dogg on the roof for “Still DRE”. He most certainly is.
Mary J Blige joins them, having added a sparkly cowboy hat to further accentuate that spectacular outfit. Soon the whole gang are there, and that’ll be that for an outstanding half-time show in Los Angeles.
Eminem
Hidden beneath his hood and his cap, Eminem leads in to “Lose Yourself”, the opening beats drawing the biggest roar yet from the Los Angeles crowd.
Super Bowl Halftime Show
Kendrick Lamar has the unenviable task of following Mary J Blige, but a coordinated dance with Lamar in the middle of a clutch of black-suited burly-men is appropriately forceful. It’s good to see the rapper back.
Mary J Blige
Mary J Blige, clad in a bedazzled silver, leopard-print outfit that is sparkling beneath the SoFi lights, initially accompanied by similarly shiny dancers but they disappear, allowing one of the great voices of hip hop and soul to take centre stage.
50 Cent!
The first surprise - it’s 50 Cent, and he’s upside down “In Da Club”! Revellers surround him. Plenty of energy.
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