Liquid will enter the week in fourth place, only one game behind Cloud9. Alphari will return to the stage during a week where Liquid will face off against weaker opponents, giving the team a great chance to bounce back strong in the standings. If Alphari can get back to his spring form and keep his motivation up, itвЂ™s hard to see Jenkins maintaining a position as the starting top laner. Shortly after the summer split began, Alphari was benched for reasons that were never disclosed. Alphari looks to reclaim top lane at LiquidДЄlphari was a driving force for Liquid during the spring split, where he dominated the other top laners in the league and went all the way to the final against Cloud9. For now, itвЂ™s expected that Alphari will play for all three games this week where Liquid will meet Dignitas, Immortals, and Golden Guardians respectively. According to Kold, the two top laners will be sharing time in scrims which will decide who will start. вЂњGoing into this week he will be playing.вЂќД®ven though Alphari will be back for this week itвЂ™s not yet decided if the British top laner will be the permanent choice moving forward. вЂњWeвЂ™ve had a week where Barney has been with the team, playing solo queue and helping out the team behind the scenes,вЂќ Kold said. In the most recent episode of SQUAD, TL head coach Jonas вЂњKoldвЂќ Andersen confirms that Alphari has been back scrimming with the team and that the two top laners will be competing for the LCS starting spot. In his absence, Liquid has been playing Thomas вЂњJenkinsвЂќ Tran with decent results. Team Liquid face Immortals and Golden Guardians in their remaining LCS matches this weekend.ДЇor more insight into the team set up at the moment, Travis Gafford interviewed interim head coach Kold here.Top laner Barney вЂњAlphariвЂќ Morris will be starting in this weekвЂ™s LCS matches after being subbed out from Team Liquid for more than a month.ДЄfter weeks spent on the bench, Alphari will be returning to prove that he is deserving of the starting spot in the top lane. Team Liquid recently published a light-hearted video of Alphari saying he was wrong to pick Chipotle, and that he should have eaten a sandwich from Jersey MikeвЂ™s, Liquid sponsor. We have to get to playoffs, and all the other good teams are gonna lose.вЂќДЄlphari also joked further, saying him and mid-laner Jensen are working on a mix-tape.Д«efore Jatt left Liquid, he said the decision to bench Alphari вЂњwasnвЂ™t a spur of the moment decision, it was something that was made with a lot of care over the last monthвЂќ.ДЄlphari made fun of this comment about his benching in a tweet, saying his choice to order Chipotle fast food вЂwasnвЂ™t spur of the momentвЂ™, but вЂcalculated a month in advanceвЂ™. I feel ready now, I feel confident, the plan is to win the split and do well at Worlds. It was very peculiar for everyone involved.

вЂњUp until the last few weeks, I didnвЂ™t know what was going on and wasnвЂ™t interacting much with the team. And playing against Dignitas, wanted me to win, it wouldвЂ™ve been a disaster for me to come back and lose my first game, so putting me against Dignitas meant I could do it. вЂњSo it was the right week to return, I suppose. #TLWIN /cwcmWm4jpW- Team Liquid LoL July 10, 2021 And IвЂ™m working with Jenkins a lot now back at the office.Д«arneyвЂ™s back. I took some time off, some of it reluctantly, but in the end I think it was good for me. Jenkins was called up to replace Alphari in the top-lane after the Welshman was benched, but now heвЂ™s back.ДЄfter the win versus Dignitas today, Alphari said: вЂњThere was some changes made in the coaching staff and interim head coach Jonas вЂKoldвЂ™ Andersen decided now was the right time. There was also said to be disagreements between him and coach Jatt, who resigned from Team Liquid in late June. He started in LiquidвЂ™s match versus Dignitas in the North American LCS today and went 3/1/8 in the top-lane as Gangplank, helping his side win 12-8 at just past the half-hour mark.ДЄlphari was benched in early June вЂfor performance and attitude reasons, which were concerns that started during the practice leading to Summer SplitвЂ™, Team Liquid said, and that the issues вЂrevolve around private reasons involving his personal lifeвЂ™. Welsh League of Legends player Barney вЂAlphariвЂ™ Morris is back in the Team Liquid first team вЂ“ and returned in emphatic fashion.

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