Field goals will not cut it now for Buffalo. It's got to be touchdowns all the way from now on.

Josh Allen knows it and throws a deep bomb towards Stefon Diggs who is double covered. He can't haul it in but it's not intercepted either which is a result for Buffalo.

Buffalo just don't have a clue how to deal with the one-two punch threat of Travis Kelce and Tyreek Hill.

Hill runs 70 yards - and more seeing as he went from one side of the pitch to the other - on a mesmerising dart and the Chiefs are back in the redzone already.

Field goal - Billspublished at 01:57 Greenwich Mean Time 25 January 2021

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Buffalo Bills 15-24 Kansas City Chiefs

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The Chiefs' defense is not massively lauded but is probably underrated - their line has put so much pressure on Josh Allen during this game.

Another third down comes and goes for Buffalo and they again opt to kick a field goal rather than go for it on fourth down as Tyler Bass lands his third of the game to reduce the deficit back to nine points.

Now, though, a big flag in Buffalo's favour.

A third down play was going nowhere but L'Jarius Sneed was penalised for holding Cole Beasley and now a TJ Yeldon run has the Bills 10 yards from the champions' line.

A Bills touchdown here would make the game far closer than it actually feels.

But an offensive penalty for a false start costs them five yards, which won't help their cause.

A good start to this Buffalo drive - a drive you feel is instrumental to their chances of turning this one around.

Josh Allen has fired fine passes to Cole Beasley, twice, and John Brown as the Bills move inside the Kansas City 25.

Field goal - Chiefspublished at 01:46 Greenwich Mean Time 25 January 2021

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Buffalo Bills 12-24 Kansas City Chiefs

It's another three points for Kansas City as Harrison Butker drills the field goal.

But it's almost a moral victory for Buffalo, who looked to have absolutely no answers to the Chiefs' offense for the majority of that drive.

Ouch!published at 01:45 Greenwich Mean Time 25 January 2021

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Buffalo Bills 12-21 Kansas City Chiefs

Clyde Edwards-Hilaire is absolutely smashed by Jordan Poyer as the Chiefs, for once, fall short on third down.

I felt that one across the pond.

Ian Whitehouse: Chiefs doing what the Chiefs do, you think it’s going well and they hit you with three quick TDs. Bills have to score on every possession now IMO.

Buffalo head coach Sean McDermott has a lovely navy blue Bills facemask.

Speaking of facemasks, the Chiefs feel they should have had a penalty for a Buffalo man grabbing Travis Kelce's faceguard but the officials say no.

It matters little as Patrick Mahomes finds Tyreek Hill on third down and 5 for another Kansas City first down.

Not the start to the second half that Buffalo wanted as Tyreek Hill speeds down the sidelines for what appears a 31-yard gain.

However, replays show his foot was partly out of bounds fairly early in the run so that will come back a bit.

A quick look at both sides' recent histories shows why the Chiefs are favourites to progress to the Super Bowl.

This is their third successive AFC Championship game, their sixth consecutive season in the play-offs, having won five straight AFC West titles.

And, of course, they won the big one last year.

By contrast, Buffalo won the AFC East title for the first time in 25 years. This season was the first time they have won a play-off game for 25 years too.

Kansas City are the 12th defending Super Bowl champions to host a Conference Championship game.

Of the previous 11 teams in that scenario, 10 have won.

Watch a brilliant climax to their divisional play-off game as the Kansas City Chiefs pull off two surprise plays to beat the Cleveland Browns and set up an AFC Championship showdown with the Buffalo Bills.

Buffalo Bills cornerback Taron Johnson intercepts Baltimore Ravens' Lamar Jackson in the end-zone and races 101 yards for the pick-six.

The Bills' 17-3 victory over the Ravens means they have reached their first AFC title game since the 1993-94 season.

It's worth reminding ourselves of how both sides reached the AFC Championship game...

Tom Brady throws three touchdown passes - including this one to Scotty Miller - as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Green Bay Packers 31-26 to reach their first Super Bowl in 18 seasons.

These teams, of course, are vying for the right to challenge Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl 55.

The Bucs beat the Green Bay Packers in a 31-26 thriller earlier on Sunday evening...

The field goal is the final meaningful action of the first half.

Buffalo got off to a dream start, aided by Mecole Hardman's costly fumble for the Chiefs.

But Patrick Mahomes soon got the reigning Super Bowl champions rolling as they registered three unanswered touchdowns to turn a 9-0 deficit into a 21-9 lead before Tyler Bass' field goal cut the gap to nine just before the break.