The Heroic coach spoke extremely of his rifler following his staff’s 2-0 win over NIP on the IEM Rio 2023
Following an invincible run of wins on the European RMR, Heroic headed to IEM Rio with excessive spirits. Jakob “jabbi” Nygaard’s sickness and the Danish staff’s tight event schedule, nonetheless, have offered a frightening problem for them in Brazil. jabbi’s illness had a big impression on their matches in opposition to 9INE, BIG, and TheMongolz, including to their present obstacles.
Cena rara: se sentindo mal desde ontem, jabbi foi substituído pelo treinador Xizt no meio do segundo mapa entre Heroic e TheMongolz. pic.twitter.com/eKwkGZDrKH
— Roque Marques (@roque_mn) April 18, 2023
Through the match in opposition to TheMongolz, Richard “Xizt” Landström changed the 19-year-old rifler, who needed to step out of the world after feeling sick. This was the primary time Xizt had sat in entrance of a monitor since his final look for Gen.G in opposition to Envy in November 2020. The Heroic coach helped his staff to beat the Mongolian facet earlier than jabbi returned to encourage a 2-0 win in opposition to Ninjas In Pyjamas.
HLTV caught up with Xizt after the NIP match, by which Heroic secured their place within the IEM Rio playoffs. Through the interview, Xizt mentioned the impression of jabbi’s sickness on the staff.
“It impacts loads, particularly on Overpass, he performs a significant half on the T facet particularly. He is the B lurker and I feel he is the most effective B lurker on that map on the earth, so it impacts us loads not having him play. We have had very dangerous losses, the primary in opposition to BIG after which in opposition to TheMongolz.”
Xizt additionally described the way it felt to select up the mouse as soon as once more.
.@Xizt is about to play his first official in 2.5 years 👀
The Swedish coach is changing @jabbiCS on @heroicgg because the Dane is feeling unwell #IEM pic.twitter.com/vVIytyRRIq
— HLTV.org (@HLTVorg) April 18, 2023
“It felt actually bizarre being again to play once more. I imply, I’m with the blokes each day in apply so I do know all the strats, but it surely’s totally different if you truly play them as a substitute of watching. Nade lineups and issues like this are usually not the place they’re imagined to be, however fortunately I’ve obtained to apply a minimum of as soon as with the blokes when Jacob was feeling in poor health. It was additionally a whole lot of enjoyable being there enjoying, and the blokes helped me loads with communication and telling me what to do. I obtained a whole lot of assist as nicely.”
Xizt confirmed that he got here in as a straight swap for jabbi. He didn’t swap with anybody else and saved issues so simple as he may.
