(Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
Patriots at Seahawks takes place tonight in Super Bowl XLIX.
The Super Bowl takes place at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona and is scheduled to start at 23:30 GMT.
Team News:
Both sides are expected to have a full roster available, with neither side having any players sit out of mid-week training.
Kam Chancellor (C) (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
The Seahawks expect Kam Chancellor (knee) to be available after he came through pre-match training following an injury scare on Friday, while RB Marshawn Lynch (back) and CB Richard Sherman (elbow) should be available.
Patriots QB Tom Brady (illness) is expected to be fit and has had no issues with his long-standing ankle injury in recent days.
Bryan Stork (knee) is back in training, while DT Chris Jones (elbow), LB Dont’a Hightower (shoulder) and DL Sealver Siliga (foot) are also set to be available.
Pre-Match Super Bowl Odds:
Patriots 10/11 (boosted to 6/1 when you join Betfair before kick-off)
Seahawks 10/11 (boosted to 6/1 when you join Betfair before kick-off)
What they’ve said ahead of Super Bowl XLIX:
Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll (on Kam Chancellor): “He looked pretty good today. We will make sure we test him in pre-game but, remarkably, he looked great today and so that’s all we have to go on.”
New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick (on the Seahawks): “They compete relentlessly as well as any team or any organisation I’ve ever observed.
“The thing that impresses me the most and the thing that I guess I would like to do a better job of is just the way that his (Carroll’s) teams play for 60 minutes. They play from the opening kick-off to the final whistle or the final gun.
“They play extremely hard down after down after down, week after week, year after year.
“They’re just never going to let up in any phase of the game: offense, defense, special teams, the receivers, the defensive backs, the linemen, the quarterback.
“Everybody just competes at such a high level for every single second that they’re out there, and I think that’s a great credit and attribute to Pete and his staff. The players they brought in there, they’re just relentless in the way that they play.
“I think that any coach wants his team to play that way and I think that Seattle and Pete really are the model for that. They do a better job than anybody. And I’m not saying that there aren’t other teams that are in that category or very close to them, but I put them at the top.”
