G2 esports giant Europe faces Danger Exit from MSI in League of Legends

In the final day of MSI 2017’s group stage, SK Telecom T1 of the LCK defeated G2 Esports of the EU LCS—likely consigning Europe’s top team to an early exit.

G2 Esports had to overcome the giants of SK Telecom T1 to be in with a shot at reaching the knockout stages, but fell just short.

Compared to the first match between these two sides on the first day of the group stage, the game had a slower start. Neither team was looking to force an engage or Team fight until the teams were sure they could find a win. SKT committed a lot to try and get an early kill in the midlane but failed to find any gain for the team’s resources, giving G2 a small lane advantage to punish SKT’s misplay.

G2 continued to misplay throughout the latter stages of the game and gave SKT easy kills in the jungle. That allowed SKT to find the tools the team needed to destroy G2’s Nexus and take the game.

G2 Esports will now face TSM later on today. G2 Esports need to beat TSM to have any hope of qualifying for the next stage—as well as hoping that other results go their way.