The victory of T1 comes with worries
Entering the confrontation against the other Dplus, this can be considered as one of the last 2 matches of T1 to make sure the World Worlds 2024. However, in the immediate future, T1 must solve the problem called DK – the team also desires to maintain the opportunity to win tickets to Worlds 2024. And finally, after 4 tense games, T1 surpassed DK with a score of 3-1. But worth mentioning, the victory of T1 still leaves many “ripples”, especially in the opening game and 4 decisions.
T1 encountered many difficulties in the match with DK
However, undeniably, the victory of T1 still leaves many worries. First, it was a deadlock and embarrassment when T1 was completely countered by the opponent. With DK owning Ziggs, it also created a position to have nothingness, T1 could not operate his play smoothly. Not to mention, DK played too well in the odd or fighting phase, making T1's biggest bright spot per might be a few players in the first game. The rest, T1 must “follow” DK and finally fail because of a backdoor phase of Aiming. Fortunately for T1, they then woke up and won.
T1 surpassed the opponent with a ratio of 3-1 but left a lot of worries
Fans T1 must also be bewildered
It can be said that T1 had a worthy victory after 3 consecutive games showing superiority compared to DK. However, after the first game, many fans were “worried about the fever” when the home team was like losing souls. Even the audience repeated the comments that appeared in the match T1 – HLE and said: “The team played as if they had just played together twice.” Meanwhile, some other opinions said that T1 seemed to be very tired and the players did not have the appearance of a team worthy of playingoffs.
“Looking at the game as if they only played together twice, they kept playing and lost”
“Maybe they rarely practice this season because DDOS. They look tired whenever the camera is aiming.”
“I can say, they play that game as if they didn't belong to this playoffs round.”
Anyway, Faker and his teammates have accomplished the goals and the score is good enough for the audience to have more spirit of preparing for the match that is expected to be more difficult than before the upcoming HLE. But indeed, if the gameplay is like in a game against DK, T1 will be difficult to overcome the HLE, especially when “Gen.G orange” is much stronger than DK.