Bears Beat Eagles To Extend Winning Streak To Five

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Chicago's Nahshon Wright (left) forced an important turnover successful nan 3rd quarter, erstwhile Philadelphia looked poised to lead for nan first clip successful nan match

ByPhil Cartwright

BBC Sport journalist

The Chicago Bears won 24-15 successful Philadelphia to fortify their position astatine nan apical of a competitory NFC North table.

Their moving backs provided nan instauration for occurrence against nan Eagles, pinch D'Andre Swift and Kyle Monangai some rushing for much than 100 yards and each scoring a touchdown.

Caleb Williams recovered tight extremity Cole Kmet pinch a 28-yard touchdown walk midway done nan 4th fourth to unafraid victory.

A triumph for Green Bay (8-3-1) complete divisional rivals Detroit (7-5) connected Thursday had tightened nan spread to Chicago, but nan Bears' 5th consecutive triumph improved their grounds to 9-3.

Chicago look nan Packers successful 2 of their adjacent 3 fixtures, starting pinch a travel to Lambeau Field connected Sunday, 7 December.

The Eagles, meanwhile, were subjected to boos by a conception of their location supporters arsenic they put successful a disjointed capacity to gaffe to a 2nd successive defeat.

The reigning Super Bowl champions (8-4) lead nan NFC East but nan Dallas Cowboys (6-5-1) person closed successful pinch victories complete Philadelphia and nan Kansas City Chiefs successful their past 2 outings.

A 10-3 scoreline astatine half-time did not rather do justness to Chicago's first-half superiority.

Philadelphia, who squandered a 21-0 lead successful their conclusion by Dallas connected Sunday, struggled connected some sides of nan shot early connected and managed only 83 yards of full offence successful nan first half.

Home backmost Jalen Hurts turned nan shot complete doubly successful nan 3rd 4th - an interception, only his 2nd of nan season, and a fumble sandwiching a 33-yard touchdown walk to AJ Brown which had reduced nan Eagles' shortage to a azygous point.

That fumble, forced and recovered by Nahshon Wright, proved pivotal. It came soon aft Williams had been intercepted by Jalyx Hunt and pinch Philadelphia, heavy successful Chicago territory, poised to spell successful beforehand for nan first time.

The Bears scored touchdowns connected their adjacent 2 drives to put nan consequence beyond doubt, pinch Brown's 2nd receiving touchdown precocious connected simply a consolation.

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