BO3 - 1 Sep - 18:00
in 6 days
The Ninjas in Pyjamas and Team Liquid are coming to their first match in ESL Pro League Season XIV, and both teams are on a situation where they must start delivering results. However, only one of these two rosters will take the win today.
Team Liquid ended the player break without any roster changes, and while this does inspire some level of confidence in this roster, Liquid's lack of a definitive leader is clearly hurting them plenty and it still has them on a major disadvantage. For this game, 'FalleN' will take the leadership role, but fans have mixed feelings about this with reason.
The Ninjas, in the other hand, simply haven't been the team they were expected to become once 'dev1ce' got added to the squad. After bringing in 'LNZ' to the roster recently, the team disappointed in IEM Cologne, but the player break gave this roster the time they needed and now they have to start giving results.
While Liquid issue is clearly unsolved, NiP finally got time to address what was holding them back. In this game, we expect to see a much stronger NiP and an unreliable-looking Liquid.
We expect to see Ancient, Nuke and Dust2.