Matchförutsägelse: Vitality - Cloud9 | CS2 (CS:GO)
IEM Cologne 2023Welcome to EGamersWorld.
The main stage of the biggest CSGO tournament of the summer is getting ready in Cologne. LANXESS arena will open its gates already on the 4th of August for the 6 best teams in the world.
Vitality and Cloud9 will be the first to set foot on the legendary stage of IEM Cologne 2023. The teams will compete for a place in the play-offs semi-finals.
The format of the meeting, as before, is Bo3. The winner of the pair will take on Finnish club ENCE, while the loser will leave the tournament in 6th place.
We're trying to figure out which team will be stronger in this clash and will continue their way to IEM Cologne 2023, and who will have to say goodbye to all their ambitions and say goodbye to LANXESS Arena after a single Bo3 series.
Ahead.
Vitality Form
We open our analysis of the first match of the IEM Cologne 2023 play-offs with a look at the Vitality jersey. In this match the French will play as favourites.
Bookmakers are confident of Vitality's success. The odds for the victory of the "Bees" are at around 1.4.
Vitality is the clear favourite. Such odds, and in such a match, makes it clear that Vitality will play first. What else can you expect from such a club?
The first half of the 2023 season has been a real treat for Vitality. It started with a win at the spring Blast Premier groups and Top 6 at the top IEM Katowice 2023 and ESL Pro League Season 4. Next was Top 3 at European RMR B and triumph at the most domestic Major e - BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023. After winning the Paris Major e Vitality took the top 2 at the spring finals of BLAST, Ledge and Heroic in the grand finals.
The last tournament before IEM Katowice was BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2023. There Vitality showed a worse result than expected, with the top 6 in the end.
- Vitality lineup: apEX, ZywOo, Magisk, Spinx, flameZ .
After the triumphant Paris Major a Vitality said goodbye to Dupreeh, and flameZ took his place. The "newcomer" Vitality has already had time to adapt and looks good: the young Israeli has KDA 1.09 and this is the third result of the team. He, by the way, started his ascent on the big stage with OG.
In their debut match at IEM Cologne 2023, Vitality only confirmed their status as one of the main favourites in Group B. OG tried, but were defeated 16-6 by Mirage and 16-13 by Anubis.
After defeating OG, Vitality took on MOUZ, who were dealt an even bigger blow by the Bees, 16-4 and 16-5.
In the match for seeding in the play-offs Vitality met another top club - G2 Esports. A nerve-wracking game where Vitality pulled out a 19-17 win on Inferno on the dopes, but then lost 10-16 to Vertigo and 8-16 to Mirage.
Vitality's mappool
Vitality's best map is Nuke. It has 4 matches and 4 wins.
Anubis (7 matches, 85% wins), Mirage (4 matches, 75% wins) are very good. In general, Vitality doesn't have any bad cards that they play. Vertigo - 71% wins in 7 matches, Inferno and Overpass - 3 wins in 5 matches.
Ancient is not being played.
Cloud9 Form.
We continue our analysis of the first match of the IEM Cologne 2023 play-offs with an analysis of Cloud9's form. In this match the team will play as an outsider.
Bookmakers are not ready to believe in C9. The odds on Cloud9's victory are 2.8.
The double advantage of the French can be explained by their more stable game, which is logical. They didn't make any critical lineup changes, but C9 did.
The 10th team of the world ranking had a very good half-year. "Cloudy" celebrated their passage to the grand finals of ESL Pro League Season 17 and victory at BLAST Premier: Spring European Showdown 2022.
In addition, the team won the commercial BB Playlist. Urbanistic. In April, C9 seriously stumbled: they lost two qualifications at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 and missed the only Major of the season.
Next up was a top-4 finish at IEM Rio 2023 and a win at Brazy Party. Before IEM Cologne 2023, C9 failed IEM Dallas 2023 (top-8) and BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2023 (top-8).
- Cloud9 line-up: H0bbit, electroNic, Ax1Le, sh1ro, Perfecto.
C9 were felt to be one of the favourites for the tournament due to their revamped line-up. Before the IEM Cologne 2023 Long Conference, Perfecto and Electronic joined the team. The experienced duo was clearly meant to strengthen stun C9, but IEM Cologne 2023 doesn't show that yet.
In their first match at the German tournament, C9 faced fnatic, who advanced to the group stage from Play-In. "Orange" proved to be stronger and shut down the stronger opponent with a score of 2-1.
In the first match, C9 fought 9INE for their lives. Exactly fought, because the match ended on three maps, and on decider Anubis C9 sweated on dops and closed the match only with the score 19-17.
The second match was easier, though not without nerves. Monte failed to beat C9 and the Americans won 2-0: Anubis 16-14 and Ancient 16-12.
Next up were the finalists of BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023. Despite a sluggish Long Corner IEM Cologne 2023, GL managed to give C9 a headache, but not enough to knock them out of the tournament. C9 shut out GamerLegion by a score of 2-1 and advanced to the play-offs.
Cloud9 Mappool.
C9's best map is Vertigo. It has 2 wins in 3 matches.
Next is Inferno. On Inferno Cloud9 played 5 times, of which they won 3 matches.
Minus winrate on 4 maps at once: Ancient (42% wins in 7 matches), Overpass (33% wins in 3 matches), Anubis (3 matches, 33% wins), Mirage (2 matches, 0 wins).
Nuke are not playing.
History of head-to-head meetings Cloud9 - Vitality
The last time the teams played each other was at BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2023. Then the French celebrated a clean victory.
Predicted result of the match Cloud9 - Vitality
In this match I expect a pretty even game. As I think, it will be appropriate to take a head start on C9, as they are playing shaky, but managed to get through the bottom of their group and play enough matches during the tournament. This will allow them to compete with an undoubtedly formidable opponent in the form of Vitality.
Bottom line: +1.5 on C9.
Bookmakers & Statistics
Alla bookmakers har kommit överens om att Vitality är favoriten. Detta kan märkas eftersom oddsen på dem är 1.409. Detta nummer till förmån för Cloud9 belopp 3.302. De sista är respektive underläge i den kommande matchen.
Vilka är framgångarna för lagen i de senaste matcherna
Senaste matcherna | Vitality | Cloud9 |
5 matcher (vinster) | 3 | 3 |
10 matcher (vinster) | 6 | 5 |
Spelare kommer definitivt att vara intresserade av statistiken över personliga möten mellan lagen. De tävlande har hållit 3 matcher. I dessa matcher vann Vitality 3 gånger, Cloud9 aktiva sammansättningar av 0 vinster.