The Packers rallied to beat the Lions on a 23-yard Mason Crosby field goal as time expired, but it didn’t come without some questionable officiating.

Green Bay, which trailed by 13 after the first quarter before winning 23-22, had critical calls go its way to help turn the tide at Lambeau Field on Monday night.

The Packers might not have pulled it off if not for two penalties for illegal hands to the face against Detroit’s Trey Flowers in the fourth quarter, the second of which allowed Green Bay to run the clock down to two seconds before Crosby’s game-winner. In both cases, replays showed Flowers’ hands on the neck or shoulder of a Packers lineman. The first call came on a third down sack.

The Lions didn’t get into any referee bashing after.

“It’s the head and neck area,” Lions coach Matt Patricia told reporters. “They called it, so obviously they saw.”

Lions legend Barry Sanders didn’t take officiating as well as the current team.

“That is sickening… the @NFL needs to look at a way to prevent that from happening,” Sanders tweeted. “Two phantom hands to the face calls really hurts us tonight. Yes, we could have scored TDs, but @Lions played too well to have the game end this way.”

The Lions offense also didn’t get game-changing calls to go their way. In the fourth quarter, Matthew Stafford tossed a deep ball to Marvin Jones, who appeared to be hit early by the Packers’ Will Redmond. The pass fell incomplete and no flag was thrown.

“You guys have a better view then we do,” Stafford said. “We know we are not playing the officials. We are playing the Packers.”

Aaron Rodgers completed 24 of 39 passes for 283 yards and two touchdowns, including a beautiful 35-yard throw to Allen Lazard for his first career score. Rodgers linked up with Jamaal Williams for the other score. Williams finished with 104 yards on 14 carries for Green Bay, which captured its first win in five tries against its NFC North rival. The Lions settled for five Matt Prater field goals.

— with AP