GREEN BAY (Interstat) — Jordan Love accounted for two touchdowns, Trey Smack kicked three field goals and the Green Bay Packers defeated the Dallas Cowboys 23-13 on Sunday at Lambeau Field in a National Football League game. Green Bay improved to 4-2. Dallas fell to 2-4. The announced attendance was 77,383.

Love was Green Bay’s top performer. He completed 23 of 41 passes for 276 yards and a touchdown and ran four times for 12 yards and another score. He opened the scoring with a 9-yard touchdown pass to Matthew Golden with 4:43 remaining in the first quarter. Smack added the extra point. Golden finished with six receptions for 104 yards and a touchdown, leading all receivers. Golden also made one tackle.

Green Bay moved ahead 10-0 on Smack’s 25-yard field goal with 5:58 remaining in the second quarter. Love then scored on a 1-yard run with 23 seconds left in the half, and Smack’s extra point gave the Packers a 17-0 halftime lead. Smack added a 44-yard field goal in the third quarter and a 29-yard field goal in the fourth. He finished 3 for 3 on field goals. Daniel Whelan punted three times for 151 yards.

Dallas got on the scoreboard in the third quarter on Javonte Williams’ 1-yard touchdown run with 9:19 remaining. B. Jones reported in as eligible on the play. Brandon Aubrey kicked the extra point. The Cowboys added a late touchdown when Dak Prescott connected with Ryan Flournoy on a 6-yard pass with 44 seconds left in the fourth quarter. The two-point conversion attempt failed when Prescott’s pass to CeeDee Lamb was incomplete. A holding penalty on Dallas’ T. Steele was enforced on the play.

The scoring sequence left Green Bay ahead 20-7 after three quarters. Smack’s final field goal gave Green Bay a 23-7 lead. Dallas then scored the game’s final six points on Flournoy’s touchdown. Green Bay’s 23 points came on two touchdowns, two extra points and three field goals. Dallas’ 13 points came on two touchdowns and one extra point. Smack made both extra-point attempts. Aubrey made his only extra-point attempt. The Packers led 7-0 after the first quarter and 17-0 at halftime.

Prescott completed 34 of 54 passes for 258 yards and a touchdown and ran twice for 7 yards. Prescott’s touchdown pass to Flournoy was his only passing touchdown. Lamb caught nine passes for 70 yards. George Pickens had six receptions for 73 yards and one tackle. Flournoy caught seven passes for 40 yards and a touchdown. Javonte Williams carried 11 times for 41 yards and a touchdown and caught two passes for 9 yards. Tyler Goodson returned five kickoffs for 122 yards and caught one pass for 9 yards. Brevyn Spann-Ford had four receptions for 35 yards, Jake Ferguson caught two passes for 13 yards and made one tackle and Hunter Luepke had three receptions for 9 yards.

Green Bay’s defense intercepted Prescott twice and limited Dallas for much of the afternoon. Evan Williams had six tackles and an interception. Brandon Cisse had four tackles and an interception. Keisean Nixon made eight tackles. Javon Bullard added six tackles. Isaiah McDuffie and Ty’Ron Hopper each had five tackles. Lukas Van Ness recorded one sack among his three tackles. Karl Brooks, Xavier McKinney and Barryn Sorrell each finished with three tackles. Zaire Franklin also had three tackles. Carrington Valentine had four tackles, and Kristian Welch, Bo Melton, Kamal Hadden, Chris McClellan, Anthony Campbell, Arron Mosby, Brenton Cox Jr. and Devonte Wyatt each had one tackle. J. Michael Sturdivant returned two kickoffs for 51 yards and made two tackles, and Coleman Owen returned one punt for 16 yards.

Caleb Downs led all players with 12 tackles. Markquese Bell and Shemar James each had five tackles. Jaishawn Barham, Shavon Revel Jr. and DaRon Bland each had four tackles. Otito Ogbonnia had four tackles. Dallas also got an apparent first-quarter interception return for a touchdown from D. Winters, but the replay official reviewed the not-down-by-contact ruling and the score remained 7-0.

Pierre Strong Jr. led Green Bay’s running backs with 11 carries for 28 yards and five receptions for 39 yards. MarShawn Lloyd ran eight times for 10 yards. Savion Williams had two carries for 9 yards and four receptions for 32 yards. Christian Watson caught three passes for 64 yards. Tucker Kraft added five receptions for 37 yards. Matthew Golden’s touchdown catch gave Green Bay an early lead, and Love’s rushing score helped the Packers take control before halftime.

Love had thrown for 367 yards and two touchdowns in Green Bay’s previous game, a 31-7 home win over Chicago. Green Bay had also won at Tampa Bay, lost at home to Atlanta, won at the New York Jets in overtime and lost at Minnesota. Dallas had lost at home to Tampa Bay, won at Houston, lost at home to Baltimore, beat Washington at home and lost at the New York Giants.

Dallas next visits Philadelphia, then hosts Arizona, visits Indianapolis, hosts San Francisco and Tennessee and Philadelphia, visits Seattle and the Los Angeles Rams and hosts Jacksonville and the New York Giants. Green Bay next visits Detroit, hosts Carolina, visits New England, hosts Minnesota, visits the Los Angeles Rams and New Orleans, hosts Buffalo and Miami, visits Chicago and hosts Houston.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Green Bay 42, Dallas 29. Interstat’s ELO system had projected Green Bay with an 82.3 percent probability to win. Green Bay had been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of -1. The total score of 36 went over the over/under line of 53.5.