btt: "We can beat any team here"

We caught up with CnB-Gaming veteran Thiago "btt" Monteiro and discussed his team's path in Bilbao so far.

The Brazilian team have reached the knock-out stages after topping their group with victories over Portuguese duo x-function and Revolution Games and French side aAa.

CnB looked a bit rusty in their first match, but improved performances in the other two games assured them of a Round of 16 encounter with Antwerp Aces.

Monteiro admitted his team were a bit off against x-function, but stated they are quite happy with what they have shown at GameGune so far.

"I think our performances were very good, I do not know if they have even surpassed our expectations, but they were very good," he told HLTV.org.

"We played two matches against the Portuguese teams. On the first map, we started out very bad as Terrorist, perhaps due to anxiety about the game, the event, it was not nervousness, but anxiety from a debut at an event.

"In the second match, we managed to get our game going, both as CT and T, and in the match we expected to be the hardest one, against aAa, even because of their scoreline against the other two teams, I expected a harder game. We entered the game really focused, we spoke before the match and the result was satisfactory."

CnB Gaming will now lock horns with Antwerp Aces, a team Monteiro confessed to being fairly unknown to his team-mates.

"To be honest, I do not know them. I will take a quick nap because I did not have a good night of sleep, wake up at 16.00 and check if there are some demos from them. I do not know their game, I do not know how they play, but we will try to get a good result," he noted.

Monteiro added that, despite his personal goal being a finish in the top 3, he believes his team can fend off the threats of Natus Vincere and the likes.

"I think so, chucky and I have won international events against big teams, fnatic, SK, mouz, and I think that when the five players join the server anything is possible, it only depends on each one of us," Monteiro affirmed.

"We always say that foreign players do not get nervous, that Swedish players do not get nervous, but they lose the pistol round, they lose the fourth round, we start shouting and that can influence a lot, but I think we can beat any team here, it only depends on ourselves."

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