jL brutally honest after G2 loss: We vanished from the server

📍Pley.gg at BLAST Premier Fall Final in Forum Arena, Copenhagen.

This Sunday, NAVI had the chance to secure their second trophy in just a week after their recent ESL Pro League S20 victory.

However, the Major champions from Copenhagen were far from their best, struggling throughout the Grand Final against G2. In fact, they were never truly in contention, with G2 confidently sealing the series 3-1.

In a post-match interview with Pley.gg, NAVI's Justinas "jL" Lekavičius didn’t hold back on the team’s disappointing performance.

“We failed today”

- We did not come to win today - we did not even come to play. I do not know what we brought with us today, but it was not to win. We were playing a little scared and at times we even vanished from the server, and we couldn’t find any solutions, and it did not make a difference that it was a Bo5 and not a Bo3.

- The game plan was fine but we couldn’t contest them properly. We failed today. We failed as a team and we failed as individuals to deal with the pressure and to come up with solutions. And there were a lot of things from the game plan that we didn’t follow through.

- It’s when you’re losing you get the most experience. It’s only going up from here. We’re having a good run with us reaching five finals in a row, but the number one team in the world does not always win.

“We were not the same NAVI”

NAVI’s captain, Aleksi “Aleksib” Virolainen, echoed similar sentiments, lamenting how the team fell short of the standards they had set previously.

- I feel like the game felt familiar to a lot of our games against G2. For example, in the group stage here they had big lead against us on Dust2 but then we ended up playing a much better T side. And today, they kind of just ran away with the rounds, and we weren’t there. We were not the same NAVI as we have shown previously and it obviously sucks, but we’ve been playing really good regardless.