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5 keys to Packers beating Lions in Week 14

The Green Bay Packers will play their third game in 12 days and attempt to score a huge win in the NFC North when Matt LaFleur’s team goes on the road to play the division-leading Detroit Lions at Ford Field on Thursday night.

The opening game of Week 14 features the 9-3 Packers — who have won three straight and seven of the last eight games — against the 11-1 Lions. Can Green Bay snap Detroit’s NFL-leading 10-game win streak and get back into the division race with four games to go?

Here are five keys to the Packers beating the Lions in Week 14:

Win the turnover battle

In the first meeting early last month, Jordan Love threw a back-breaking pick-six to end the first half while the Lions played a mostly clean game.