Liquid defeat fnatic in London

8-6-2018 17:04

Liquid have defeated fnatic 16-14 on Cache to start their ECS Season 5 Finals campaign.

Liquid and fnatic squared off in the second Group A opening match at the ECS Season 5 Finals. The game on Cache kicked off with Liquid on the T-side. The North Americans won the pistol round by turning around a 3vs4 disadvantage.

fnatic and Liquid traded punches in the first four rounds as the game was tied at 2-2. Epitacio "⁠TACO⁠" de Melo's opening kills in the following three rounds helped Liquid take and extend the lead (5-2). Even though fnatic won the tenth round to trail 7-3, they couldn't start a streak and Liquid went on to win the half 12-3.

Liquid will play Astralis for a playoff spot

Jesper "⁠JW⁠" Wecksell got a triple kill in the second half pistol round as fnatic cut the deficit to eight rounds (12-4). Liquid responded in the following round to break fnatic's economy, making it 13-4.

After losing another round, fnatic won six in a row but ultimately couldn't catch up to Liquid who closed out the game 16-14 thanks to TACO's incredible flank in the last round.

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fnatic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson KRIMZ	22 - 18	+4	81.1	66.7%	1.11
Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist flusha	19 - 20	-1	67.8	76.7%	1.00
Jesper 'JW' Wecksell JW	19 - 24	-5	71.8	60.0%	0.91
Richard 'Xizt' Landström Xizt	12 - 23	-11	53.6	70.0%	0.68
Maikil 'Golden' Selim Golden	13 - 22	-9	51.8	50.0%	0.68

Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Keith 'NAF' Markovic NAF	26 - 14	+12	88.3	80.0%	1.42
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski EliGE	24 - 20	+4	80.7	80.0%	1.21
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella nitr0	21 - 14	+7	72.8	83.3%	1.20
Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo TACO	18 - 19	-1	81.2	70.0%	1.19
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Twistzz	18 - 18	0	63.9	70.0%	0.99

Next up in London Liquid will face Astralis in the Group A winners' match for a spot in the semi-finals. fnatic on the other hand will take on Cloud9 in a best-of-three game tomorrow to stay alive at the ECS Season 5 Finals.

wp by taco lol

2018-06-08 17:04

20 replies

expected

9 replies

Ez for TACO VACO aka Top1 entry in the world

2018-06-08 17:09

8 replies

Expected

2018-06-08 17:11

2 replies

2018-06-08 17:24

1 reply

unexpected

2018-06-08 17:32

>botaco >goataco Pick one

2018-06-08 17:21

4 replies

Greatest of all time, taco

2018-06-08 18:31

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OMFG!!! Thank you dude... I just realize now that GOAT means greatest of all time LMFAO HAHAHAHAHAHA I thought it was just the animal but didn't know why LUL

2018-06-08 19:03

I AM THE GOAT I LIVE ON MOUNTAIN AND MAKE MILK :D

2018-06-08 21:07

You can thank me later.

2018-06-08 21:52

would've been a win for fnatic with lekr0 :/

2018-06-08 17:06

100%

I aren't think that

2018-06-08 17:10

You do not know that.

2018-06-08 17:20

6 replies

u sure?

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Yes. Lekr0 was removed due to internal differences with lekr0 in the team, so chances could've been awry, or even wrose, with lekr0 in the team. 16-14 is by no means a total-loss, it went to all 30 rounds...

2018-06-08 17:23

I don't think that would've affected that much the game as in Lekr0 wouldn't have got such bad numbers as both Golden and Xizt. Golden as a fragger seems to still be a complete BOT. Xizt picking Cache and leaving nuke open so late on the veto tells me that Fnatic is practicing maps that they don't even play, they're not good on maps they don't even play, it's pretty clear by how they played, and if you're banning Mirage and Inferno that are 2 of your best maps... Something is gotta be wrong... I'm sayin it right now, this team isn't going further than this group stage, and it's all fault of Xizt being on this lineup while they still have golden.

2018-06-08 20:15

I'll agree that the lineup will fall, but I am not going to blame Xizt because I think he can help the team improve.

2018-06-08 20:16

I don't think that Xizt is the only problem, nor blaming it all on him, the team could work if they have Xizt and Lekr0 or Xizt and another fragger, but Xizt and Golden... There's no point on having them both...

2018-06-08 20:18

I agree completely. Excellent post and overall analysis. Have a good day, [Darkeren]. ^^

"Never pick Cache against me motherfucker" (c)

I was thinking that also. But This is thier first match. They have the potential to be a great team but need to find thier groove and work hard. I cpuldnt aee them winning with Golden calling and lekro with them. Liquid has been looking good and yet they almost lost fnatic did not play that well

2018-06-08 17:19

Unexpected...

2018-06-08 17:05

gg :o

-golden

would be nice to see faze getting new 5th and olof signing for fnatic But i doubt it will happen

2018-06-08 17:29

Would be nice to see that with xizt but doubt it will happen..

2018-06-08 19:28

Ez 4 TACO

Rip

GOD TACO

sit the fk down

Ecs You Beauty!

Unluko

God forgives Taco doesnt

damn

fuck

Both teams looked really shaky. Glad liquid was able to clos eit out tho

thx taco <3

-lekr0 = -fnatic

GOD 74C0 SK LUL

Nice move fnatic hahahah

:( nt

Sure fnatic kick your best aimer wp

But they didnt. Thier best aimer is either Krimz or flusha. Lekr0 would be the 2nd best aimer next to either of them. Plus Lekro has had some ups and downs. And on a premier stage you need to be consistent. Flusha and jw have been looking above average but for flusha he needs to bring back that Katowice preformans and consistantly be that good. Golden needs to work in his aim but his gamesense is not bad. Jw needs to be more consistent and xizt needs to fit in. He is not a bad IgL and this is thier first official match. Krimz is still a beast but i feel like they would have won on mirage. Who banned that btw?

2018-06-08 17:22

vacooooo

WHY IN GOD'S NAME IS GOLDEN STILL IN FNATIC? LEKR0 SHOULD PLAY INSTEAD OF HIM!

Never pick Cache aga...oh wait NiP:"Oh and thanks for Lekr0 guys"

2018-06-08 17:07

NA with the classic choke but our Brazilian has anti choke spray so ez

Lol

2018-06-08 17:08

Expected. Golden will be kicked soon... Feel sorry for him but that's what fnatic needs to do. Xizt showed great mid-round calls, no doubt he's better than golden as an igl. olof gives up faze all the time in order to come back to fnatic? Haha may be.

Taco playing good in a NA team It says a lot about how much garbage SK and BR CS are PD: Xizt OMEGALUL, overrated cuz he was carried by faze.

Your comment shows how jealous and hater you are, taco is just another good player from Brazil hltv.org/matches/2323135/sk-vs-liquid-st.. cry is free uruguayan kid

Why do u even talk? Holy shit get a life

2018-06-09 00:33

Xzist XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Xizt was a good choice

-Golden +Lekr0 ffs Lekr0 is one of the best Swedish fraggers

Yea 2 igls best idea lmao

Golden still bottom frag keke

naf fly short interview was so wierd i mean come on dude, do u know how to speak?

he does his speaking in the server boiiiii

2018-06-08 17:13

We did it TACO VACO <3 Glad for that bro, I'm proud of you my brother! Congratz and good luck against Astralis! WE CAN DO IT! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

-lekr0 instead of -golden was the most retarded move since godsent meme

2018-06-08 17:12

Vaco

2018-06-08 17:14

GOOD JOOB TACO <3

Ez for best NA team

2018-06-08 17:15

GG. Xizt still did alot of good calling on T SIDE. -Golden after ECS, Maybe +Draken or +Brollan

2018-06-08 17:17

new 2 IGL clan experiment 2.0

No lekro no win

It was a valiant effort from Fnatic albeit the whole match coming to an anti-climatic end. If it would have went to overtime, Fnatic would have definitely closed out the match. T-Side of Fnatic looked solid. Xizt's calls were great, really confused Liquid. Golden's entry-fragging kills were on point. Definitely a great potential in this Fnatic lineup.