Liquid was up 15-14 in rounds and had managed to decimate Heroic down to one single man left standing on the deciding map. With five CT players alive in the final round of regulation, the victory was secured for Liquid. The casters were sure, all the viewers were sure, and it also looked like North Americans already had begun celebrating their further advancement at ESL Pro League Season 14.
However, in the next minute of time, something miraculous happened – performed by no other than Ismail “refrezh” Ali.
Clutch of the Year? refrezh makes INSANE 1vs5 clutch
The Danish nightmare
The crazy clutch seems to have left a quite big and substantial impact on Liquid’s Keith “NAF” Markovic, the fourth player to fall against refrezh in the already iconic play.
In an interview for his recent ‘Top 20 Players of the Year 2021’ honour, NAF touched on the famous 1v5 clutch describing how that exact play had kept him sleepless.
– refrezh’ 1v5 was a huge blow, if that happened on LAN, I think I would be haunted by this memory until the end of time, but I believe since it happened online it’s been out of my head. I remember the following day I had to go meet my girlfriend’s parents for the first time and I remember at about 08:00 when she woke up I told her I never went to bed, I was just lying there for like 9 hours and all I could think of was refrezh 1v5’ing us, NAF said to HLTV.
You can read the entire article featuring NAF right here.
.@NAFFLY lands himself 14th place on the top 20 players of 2021 ranking thanks to his effective clutching and outstanding floor level and consistency!
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— HLTV.org (@HLTVorg) January 9, 2022
NAF’s reaction to the clutch back in September.
Lmao.
Goodnight.
— Keith Markovic (@NAFFLY) September 10, 2021
