EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Any 49ers-Giants matchup should ooze excitement.

Maybe that’s because each franchise has four wins in their playoff matchups, two of which the Giants pulled out at Candlestick Park en route to Super Bowl wins in the 1990 and 2011 seasons.

Maybe it’s a West Coast vs. East Coast thing.

Regardless, it will be a world away from Houston’s dreary den in which the 49ers sleepwalked their way to a 26-15 defeat last Sunday and fell to 5-3.

This will be the 49ers’ first visit to MetLife Stadium since the COVID-conflicted 2020 season, when they beat the Jets and the Giants there in Weeks 2 and 3 but sustained a slew of injuries on a turf field that’s since been replaced but remains suspect.

Tight end George Kittle missed that game and said of this visit: “It’s the last st

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