​Fnatic stayed alive at the ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier after defeating FaZe Clan on Tuesday. DBLTAP's Max Mallow caught up with Jesper "JW" Wecksell after the match to talk Richard "Xizt" Landström's in-game leading style compared to Maikil "Golden" Selim and how the team has been playing with William "draken" Sundin.f

Max Mallow: Congratulations on the victory defeating FaZe Clan. Coming out of the close match against Natus Vincere, what did you take away from that game since you had to play the other top team in the group to stay alive?





Jesper "JW" Wecksell: To begin with, I think we could've closed out Na`Vi 2-0. We played a pretty good game on Mirage, and in my opinion, we lost a couple of bad rounds we shouldn't have lost. We won Inferno but on the third map we lost steam. Overall, we feel like we've improved so much since Cologne so beating FaZe was definitely doable. We just kept our heads up and knew what we were capable of.





MM: As of the most successful Swedish players, what have you seen out of draken since he was a sought after addition early on by Ninjas in Pyjamas and now Fnatic made the move to pick him up?





JW: I think the biggest thing with draken is he's always confident and goes for his peeks regardless if he's having a rough game. You really need to have that confidence, and it's good for us because someone else other than myself can do that. We still have some things to work on, but it was a no-brainer for us to pick him up and take advantage of what was in my opinion a big mistake by NiP.





MM: Ever since the old Fnatic roster broke up, the team has been in search of a solid in-game leader. Since Xizt took over, how do you feel playing under him has helped your play style considering that Fnatic had success in the beginning of the year.





JW: "First, we don't want to take anything away from Golden. We think he's a good upcoming leader, but he needs a few more years of experience. I think Xizt fits us way better though because he's so calm. It doesn't matter how the round starts, goes or ends because he's been in those situations before like us. I feel Golden lacked a bit in that department because he was pretty fresh and hadn't been in those situations in major tournaments. We keep improving all the time and improving fast so we're very happy with him."





MM: How important do you think it was for Ninjas in Pyjamas to qualify for the Swedish scene considering your region has been up and down this year?





JW: It's very important for NiP to qualify. People can say whatever they want in interviews that Majors don't mean as much anymore. I think that's not true at all and kind of bullshit to me. The Majors are still the most prestigious tournaments in my opinion. Saying you don't care that much about them anymore is a bad mentality. In terms of Swedish CS, it's a small step forward for the region but it's great for NiP to get stickers again.

Make sure to tune in on Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET across Twitch.tv/eleaguetv, live.eleague.com or live.bleacherreport.com for more ELEAGUE action. Team Liquid faces off against Made in Brazil followed by a match between Fnatic and mousesports.





This interview was edited for clarity.





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