Astralis took down Team Spirit in dominant fashion with two blowout maps giving them the semifinals berth over their Russian rivals. The team’s Swedish AWPer Love “phzy” Smidebrant looked to be in stellar form, putting on a show for his home crowd with a chart topping 1.76 rating across the series. Meanwhile Spirit were limited to just 13 rounds across two maps, with Danil “donk” Kryshkovet putting together a mere 21 kills.
Team Rosters – Astralis vs. Spirit – EPL Season 23
| Astralis | Spirit |
|---|---|
| Victor “Staehr” Staehr | Boris “magixx” Vorobyev |
| Jakob “jabbi” Nygaard | Myroslav “zont1x” Plakhotia |
| Rasmus “HooXi” Nielsen | Danil “donk” Kryshkovets |
| Love “phzy” Smidebrant | Dmitriy “sh1ro” Sokolov |
| Gytis “ryu” Glušauskas | Andrey “tN1R” Tatarinovich |
| Casper “ruggah” Due (C) | Sergey “hally” Shavayev (C) |
Match Recap
- Spirit removed Inferno
- Astralis removed Anubis
- Spirit picked Dust2
- Astralis picked Ancient
- Spirit removed Nuke
- Astralis removed Mirage
- Overpass was left over
Dust2 – phzy outclasses Spirit – 13-6
The first round of the series was a perfect teaser of what was about to follow across the series. Spirit climbed up A short, and made it all the way to the bombsite, but were simply unable to kill phzy, despite the sniper reloading his USP-S while stood in the open in front of multiple Spirit players. That netted the Swede three headshots, and his team four rounds on the trot.
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