torzsi: "I like molodoy's play style; he reminds me of myself when I was in tier 2"

torzsi enjoyed the fight against his counterpart in a three-map barnburner with FURIA.

MOUZ secured a spot in the IEM Cologne semi-finals after a tough three-map affair against FURIA, which came down to a 7-11 comeback on the Inferno decider as Dorian "⁠xertioN⁠" Berman stepped up late with opening after opening on Banana.

Following the match, Ádám "⁠torzsi⁠" Torzsás spoke to HLTV about the tough game, in which MOUZ also barely squeezed out a victory in an overtime affair on Train, and matching up against his FURIA counterpart, Danil "⁠molodoy⁠" Golubenko.

The Hungarian had nothing but praise for the Kazakhstani AWPer, with whom he went toe-to-toe all throughout the series. "He reminds me a little bit of myself when I was playing tier two-three," torzsi said. "He has a bright future ahead of him. I really enjoy playing versus him, we had a good fight as AWPers."

He also spoke about MOUZ's upcoming match against Vitality, admitting it's going to be tough to break their loss streak against Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire's team, especially after their previous matches have left something to be desired.

"At this tournament, I feel like we are getting better game by game, but we didn't reach our potential yet," torzsi said. "We need it for tomorrow, that's the truth."

Congratulations, that was a pretty tough game towards the end. Tell me about the ending on Inferno - you were struggling on Banana, and then finally found the answers with the right timings and xertioN getting those openings.

Yeah, that was a really tough game. I think they put up an insane fight and I think, as you said, xertioN had a huge impact on the second half on T side on Inferno. He got those entries for us and I think me and Brollan were supporting him really well with nades, he was getting flashes where he wanted and he could punish YEKINDAR.

In the beginning we didn't wanna play towards Banana too much, but we figure that maybe we need to let xertioN off the leash, and he did a great job. I'm also really proud of Ludvig because it's really difficult to come back on stage from 11-7 on Inferno, it's a really tough side. He made some really good calls.

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How is it to deal with when you don't get the openings, when you don't get the individuals rolling? That kind of happened on the second map and it was looking like that was happening on Inferno as well. How do you make sure you can get back from that?

It's pretty hard to play when you are not fully connected with your teammates, and I think that's what happened on Mirage. We got a little bit lazy, I would say, we were not communicating as much, I was not calling as much as I would want to. I didn't do my moves and I think I played pretty poorly on Mirage, and also as a team we didn't show up.

In my head, to be honest, I was like, 'maybe we already won this game' a little bit because I feel like we are really confident and comfortable on Mirage. I was already in the future in my head, and it was a mistake by me. On Inferno we stepped up, we did pretty good. But it's really hard when you're not getting your openings and you have to play these 5v5s, late rounds, close rounds, you have like 5 seconds to plant the bomb sometimes.

I heard you earlier giving a lot of props to molodoy. I spoke Jimi on the media and he was saying how you guys all need to be sharp to shut him down. molodoy was still getting a lot of his moves, getting aggressive and catching you guys off-guard. What makes it so hard to play against this guy?

Yeah, I think he's really good, to be honest. I really like his playstyle. I also said that he reminds me a little bit of myself when I was playing in tier-two, tier-three. I think he's definitely a star AWPer, he has his own moves, he has his own ideas, and I think he's really sharp as well.

I think he has a bright future ahead of him, I think he played amazing. I also want to say that I really enjoy playing versus him, we had a really good fight as AWPers, so I enjoyed it a lot.

I can't not ask about tomorrow. Vitality has obviously been a tough matchup, there's no denying that. What is it that you have to do differently this time?

Yeah, I think if we want to win versus Vitality tomorrow, we need to show up 100%. At this tournament, I feel like we are getting better game by game, but we didn't reach our potential yet and we need it for tomorrow, that's the truth.

It's Vitality, they are the best team in the world, they won everything, and I feel like we need to fix our details, listen to each other - because for example, Train T side was really messy from us, Ludde was calling something and we were not listening or doing something else, or dying in stupid ways. Vitality will punish us for this as they always do and we need to show up 110% for tomorrow.