The Cincinnati Bengals won an exciting duel with the Baltimore Ravens in the NFL playoffs and will face the Buffalo Bills in the next round.

Last season's Super Bowl participant won 24:17 on Sunday evening (local time) and can continue to dream of the first title in his history.

For the Ravens, who are once again playing without their injured regular quarterback Lamar Jackson, the season is over.

Giants defeat Vikings

The preliminary decision brought a spectacular defensive action by the Bengals: while defending their own end zone, Sam Hubbard grabbed the football that had become free and ran 98 yards into the Ravens' end zone.

“I was in the right place at the right time.

I was just hoping to make it to the end zone, I got really tired," Hubbard said.

It was particularly bitter for the Ravens fans that their team lost the ball in a supposedly safe so-called quarterback sneak, in which playmaker Tyler Huntley tried to get the ball over the line himself from a short distance.

Instead of taking the lead themselves, the team never recovered from the setback.

On Sunday (9:00 p.m. CET) in Buffalo there will be a repeat of the game between the Bills and the Bengals, which was canceled two weeks ago.

On the penultimate day of the main round, Bills professional Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field.

He has since left the hospital.

Also on Sunday (12:30 a.m. Monday morning CET), the San Francisco 49ers will meet the winner of the last remaining game in the wild card round (the round of 16 in the NFL title fight) between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Dallas Cowboys.

The day before, the Kansas City Chiefs will meet the Jacksonville Jaguars (10:30 p.m. CET) and the New York Giants will meet the Philadelphia Eagles (2:15 a.m. Sunday morning CET).

For the Giants, last Sunday's win over the Minnesota Vikings was their first playoff win since 2012;

the year the team won the Super Bowl with playmaker icon Eli Manning.

For Manning's successor Daniel Jones, it was the first playoff game of his career, he impressed with two touchdown passes and remained without a throw to the opponent.

Saquon Barkley also had a good evening with two touchdown runs.

The Vikings around their playmaker Kirk Cousins ​​took a 7-0 lead and later equalized again to make it 24:24, but were unable to get into a good position in the final phase.