FNC – C9
Opening for the second leg of team A teams will be a clash between Fnatic and C9. The encounters between Europe and North America are always expected, not only because these are two areas that can be called the flesh of League of Esports, but also because they are also the answer to the persistent war between LCS and LEC.
On the representative side of Europe, they are impressive in the first three matches. Fnatic won both the first match, the first match with C9 and the second match with T1 even though they were much lower than the representative from Korea, and only lost the match with Edward Gaming.
With great performances from all positions, especially 2 key Humanoid and UPSET, Fnatic is showing extremely good performance in the Worlds group stage. Not as strong as Rogue, not as flashy as G2, but Fnatic still silently moved forward.
On the other side of the battle line, C9 – the defending champion of the North American host, ended his first leg with a record of 0 win 3 losing extremely bowl. It seems that having to go to the same table with 3 horned names in the international arena is making the No. 1 representative from Na more struggling than ever. The feeling of getting hands and lost always exists in each match of Cloud 9. Along with that is a huge pressure before the prospect of 0-6 or even 0-18 finally, which is also more or less affecting the players' psychology of the players. Predict victory for FNC.
T1 – FNC
After fighting with C9, Fnatic will have to continue on the floor to confront Faker and his juniors. On the side of T1, they also owned 2 wins 1 losses similar to European representatives after 3 matches. Faker is always the leader of T1 when he is still proving the position of a greatest player in League of Legends after all years of professional competition. With the responsibility of a senior, the immortal demon still knows when to step back to create opportunities for other positions to shine, when to bear the huge amount of damage in the fight.
However, only Faker is not enough when in the first leg match against Fnatic, the weaknesses in the T1 squad are somewhat revealed. After the convincing Akali performance against EDG in the opening match, Faker could not do anything more than a loud lines of representatives from Europe.
Fnatic played the first leg with T1 overwhelming. From the picking stage, the laning stage to the fight, FNC always shows the overwhelming overwhelming variety of the No. 2 seed of Korea. The excellent show of both Humanoid, UPSET and especially the Razork jungle player with the Poppy card has completely disabled T1's gameplay.
The victory over T1 as the doping dose motivated Fnatic's members to become more confident than ever and was a firm affirmation that the gap between Europe and Korea or China was not as far as before. Meanwhile, the defeat before the representative from LEC is a wake -up bell for T1 in particular and LCK in general, engrossed in racing with LPL seems to be more or less making Korean teams forget about other extremely powerful rising areas.
The upcoming second leg between the two teams will be an opportunity to revenge for Faker and his teammates after the weak loss in the first leg. However, the bravery of the house 3 times the world champion will help T1 fix the mistakes in this rematch and succeed to hate before Fnatic. Predict T1 victory.
C9 – EDG
On the side of EDG, they are the defending world champions and the members of their squad also played in accordance with their strength. After a great success in 2021, EDG returned to Worlds with the position of the No. 3 seed LPL. However, not so that they are weaker than other teams in this group. With the key pointed nose is the VIPER Gunner, the mid lane Scout or even Meiko support, EDG is still performing well and getting the scores you need.
In the first leg between C9 and EDG, EDG did not face too many difficulties to win against representatives from North America. Especially the excellence of Meiko and the thriller card when EDG's support players constantly have quality death sentences, creating a fighting premise as well as protecting teammates extremely exemplary. Meiko's performance against C9 as if to remind people that it was no coincidence that his thresh was up to the MV of this year's Worlds.
As for Cloud 9, they are still struggling to find their own play. C9's decisions or decisions have not been too effective when their squad has not been able to operate a tactic around their own choices. This Worlds was like a cold water for both C9 in particular and LCS in general when the wise style of the market of this area still lasts from year to year. Predict victory for EDG.
FNC – EDG
This is the rematch between the two seeds No. 3 of the LEC area and the LPL area. Both have 2 wins and 1 loss after 3 matches in the first leg. However, EDG will always be better rated when they are both the defending world champion and the representative of the most powerful area now. Another reason to rank Edward Gaming higher than Fnatic is because in the first leg, they defeated the European representative could not be more convincing.
Fnatic in that match, with the highlight of Humanoid and the familiar Azir processing phase, was able to do anything more than a strong EDG. The eye -catching fighting in the Dragon cave seems to be the key when Humanoid and UPSET Shut Down are the main force as well as wipe out the entire EDG team, but when the Sivir is too green for a leading gunner in the world like Viper, no one can kill in fighting with it in the middle and end of the match.
Besides the gunner of EDG also has extremely quality support of all 4 teammates. Flandre's explosive wine barrels, Jiejie's rage or Meiko's last chapter were extremely effective and that made Fnatic completely helpless.
Many fans have admired and praised the performance of representatives from Europe after the first leg with Edward Gaming. Although there was a fairly struggling game in the game, they have shown a stable game and catch up with the pace to make the fight still on par with strength. However, Fnatic still lacks a little luck to win the final victory.
So in the upcoming second leg, Humanoid and his teammates will be full of the desire to win more than ever. Fnatic and Europe have never been an easy -to -eat opponent with teams from Asia, so this promises to be an extremely fierce confrontation. However, the balance will still be more inclined to EDG, when in the first leg, they showed an overwhelming game against Fnatic, predicting victory for EDG.
T1 – C9
All 3 losses of C9 in this year's Worlds season are 3 quite fast losses and do not have too many highlights. The players play only from the good level or less, not anyone stand out. If in the previous two matches against FNC or EDG Cloud9 could win, their psychology would be a lot slightly, but otherwise they were being cornered and the 0-6 prospect was coming closer than ever.
Say no exaggeration, North America is always in the bubble created by themselves so that when it comes out of that cover, it is impossible to bear the surrounding environment. In the first leg against T1, the only highlight of C9 is probably Fudge's escape phase to give Gumayusi eating penta, preventing the atmosphere and performance of T1 not high in the next match. The remaining 99% of the match only has the complete overwhelming of T1, from the road, personal skills, macro to combat.
In the upcoming second leg, unless T1 has a selfless heart that wants to grateful to the hospitality of the host representative, the only door for the representative of North America to win against T1 is the door in Van Dong Madison Square Garden yard, and on the cute yard, it is full for C9. Predict victory for t1
EDG – T1
This is considered the focal point and will decide the outcome of Group A full of tension. T1 and EDG always have an extremely interesting history when almost any World Worlds season has both teams participating, they are ranked in the same table. However, that history is tilting towards T1 when EDG has not been straight, if not to mention the life of Meiko and Scout's life with the Faker's own 10,000 money flip -floping phase of SKT's own SKT.
However, in the second leg, with EDG this will be an opportunity for the defending world champion to reclaim the debt after the salt loss, regain honor for more than a decade before the representative from Korea and witness that the other defeat is only an accident. As for T1, another victory over EDG will be a challenge to the championship of last year's heavenly championship simply due to the no involvement of T1 and a firm affirmation that they are the crystal of Edward Gaming.
