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Niners travel to Panthers on Sunday
By Pearl Allison Lo December 1, 2007 |
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San Francisco hopes to reduplicate their success and turn their long-sought recent victory into a winning streak as they face the Carolina Panthers, for their second road game in two weeks. Turnovers were key last game for the Niners. Frank Gore got his first 100-yard game of the season plus 2 TDs. The 49ers are 9-1 when RB Frank Gore has 20+ carries. For Carolina, Steve Smith returned, but didn’t fare too well. DeShaun Foster had negative yardage. Both teams share several similar threads coming into this matchup: Carolina hopes to steer clear of their 8th straight home loss while the 49ers just snapped an 8-game losing streak. In the Panthers’ last 7 games at home they have been outscored 200-70. Their last home win was November 19, 2006. The Panthers are currently on a 5-game losing streak. Carolina is 27th in the NFL in scoring average and SF is still last. Both teams also have injured starting quarterbacks. Alex Smith is expected to miss yet another week while Vinny Testaverde’s availability for Sunday’s matchup is probable. Predictions: SF is still disfavored but at an increasingly lesser percentage; 69% of Pro Football Pick’em participants, 3 of 5 Yahoo! Sports’ experts, and sportingnews.com fan blogs (17-13) pick the Panthers to win. The 49ers are 9-1 when RB Frank Gore has 20+ carries. |
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