Matchförutsägelse: NaVi - FaZe Clan | CS2 (CS:GO)

Reigning world champions Natus Vincere will play against FaZe Clan, the vice world champions, in the play-offs stage of ESL Pro League Season 19. The winner will be one step closer to the championship, while the loser will finish the tournament in 9th-12th place and earn $23,500 in prize money. The format of the match is bo3. Will karrigan and team be able to win the rematch? Let's find out.

In this betting thread you will find out how the participants of this match performed during the previous year, how they did in their previous professional tournament, as well as how this match will end.

Natus Vincere's form

Overall, Natus Vincere has seen a slight downturn in the quality of play in the previous year due to lineup changes and the departure of s1mple. Since the beginning of the previous season, Born to Win took 3-4th places at Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2023, ESL Pro League Season 17 and Intel Extreme Masters Rio 2023. In Katowice the team earned $80,000. The Ukrainian team qualified for the Paris Major thanks to their victory at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR A. At the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 NAVI did not show much success, finishing in 9-11th place and earning $20,000. At BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2023, the Ukrainian team took 4-6th place in the standings and received $17,500 in prize money and a trip to BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2023. Intel Extreme Masters Cologne 2023 went relatively well for Natus Vincere, but the team failed to qualify for the play-offs. NAVI Ledge defeated Astralis 1:2 in the lower finals. The 7th-8th place at IEM Cologne 2023 provided NAVI with $24,000 in prize money. Gamers8 2023 ended for the Ukrainian team with 5-8th place in the standings and $35,000 in prize money. In ESL Pro League Season 18, Natus Vincere won silver, for which they received $90,000. The trip to the Intel Extreme Masters Sydney 2023 was not so successful, where the Ukrainian club could not get out of the group, took 9-12th place and had to settle for $5,000. The 5th-6th place at BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2023 brought the players $20,000. And the year ended with NAVI finishing in the top 4 of BLAST Premier: World Final 2023, which provided Born to Win with $85,000 in rewards. Natus Vincere have already started the 2024 year with a win at PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: European Qualifier A, which secured the players a trip to the RMR tournament. At BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024, NAVI won their group and secured a trip to BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2024. Top 8 at Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2024 allowed the Ukrainian team to earn $24,000. 3-5th place at PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: European RMR A allowed the Ukrainian club to go to the Major tournament.

The previous professional event for NAVI was PGL Major Copenhagen 2024. The Long Championship started for Aleksib and his teammates in the Elimination Stage with a 13-10 victory over The MongolZ on the Mirage map. In the second round, Natus Vincere outlasted G2 Esports on Nuke with a 13-11 score. In the top match of the third round, the Ukrainian squad Ledge beat Team Spirit in a full bo3 series before losing to Cloud9 with a similar result. The final match against paiN Gaming ended with NAVI winning two maps in a row (Nuke - 13-10, Mirage - 13-9). Thus, the Ukrainian club entered the play-offs, where in the quarter-finals they defeated Eternal Fire 2-0 (Mirage - 16-13, Inferno - 13-9). Natus Vincere's semi-final opponent was Team Vitality. NAVI defeated ZywOo and the team in a full bo3 match (Anubis - 16-13, Nuke - 7-13, Ancient - 13-11). In the grand final of the tournament the Ukrainian team defeated FaZe Clan with the result 2:1 and became the champion of PGL Major Copenhagen 2024. Thus the team won the main prize of $500,000, as well as invitations to BLAST Premier: World Final 2024 and Esports World Cup 2024.

Natus Vincere started their performance at ESL Pro League Season 19 with a confident victory over FlyQuest on two maps in a row (Ancient - 13-5, Mirage - 13-6) in Group D. The semifinals were held at the end of the season. In the semi-finals, NAVI defeated Germans from BIG with 2:1 result (Anubis - 9-13, Nuke - 13-3, Vertigo - 13-7). Full bo3 series against Complexity Gaming in the deciding match of the grid ended with the defeat of the Ukrainian team, but in any case NAVI went to Round of 12 play-offs.

Statistics of the last results of Natus Vincere:

• A 1:2 defeat to Complexity Gaming
• 2:1 win over BIG
• Victory over FlyQuest with the score 2:0
• 2:1 victory over FaZe Clan
• 2:1 win over Team Vitality

FaZe Clan form

FaZe Clan had a productive season, first of all financially, although they lost some ground in the middle of the year. They started the season with a 1st-3rd place finish at BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2023 and $27,500. Their performance at Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2023 ended with 7th-8th place and $24,000 in prize money. The main achievement this year for FaZe Clan team can already be confidently called the championship at ESL Pro League Season 17, which brought not only $200,000, but also the victory in the fourth season of Intel Grand Slam, and this is an additional $1,000,000 in prize money. Among the big events, BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 is also worth mentioning. There FaZe Clan took the 5th-8th places and earned $45,000. Then Intel Extreme Masters Dallas 2023 ended for karrigan and his teammates on 3-4th place, this result brought $20,000. At BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2023, FaZe Clan finished in 5th-6th place in the standings and earned an additional $20,000 in prize money. The European club travelled to BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2023 where they finished in 1st-3rd place, earned $27,500 and received a slot in BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2023. FaZe Clan also took part in the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne 2023. There the team took 9th-12th place and received a consolation prize of $16,000 in prize money. At the big LAN-tournament Gamers8 2023 FaZe Clan took 9-16th place and got $15,000 prize money. At ESL Pro League Season 18 karrigan and team took 9-12th place and earned $25,000 in prize money. At IEM Sydney 2023 and Thunderpick World Championship 2023 FaZe Clan rehabilitated and won, earning a total of $350,000. The team also won the CS Asia Championship 2023, where the players received $250,000 as the top prize. The silver medal at BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2023 provided the European club with $85,000 in prize money. FaZe Clan finished the year in second place at BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2023 and received $250,000. The 2024th Long Contest got off to a great start for FaZe Clan players with BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024. As a result, the win allowed FaZe to earn $22,500 and a trip to BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2024. At Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2024 karrigan and his teammates won silver and were awarded $180,000 in prize money. 3rd-5th place at PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: European RMR A allowed the team to qualify for the Major Championship. Silver at PGL Major Copenhagen 2024 brought FaZe Clan another $170,000.

The previous professional tournament for FaZe Clan was Intel Extreme Masters Chengdu 2024. The team started its journey in Group B. A successful performance, with the exception of a sensational loss to Astralis, put the team into the quarter-finals of the play-offs. After defeating Team Liquid in a complete bo3 series (Nuke - 16-13, Anubis - 11-13, Mirage - 13-10), karrigan and team outplayed Astralis with a similar result (Nuke - 13-10, Ancient - 5-13, Inferno - 13-7). In the grand finals of the tournament FaZe Clan defeated MOUZ 2-0 (Overpass - 13-10, Nuke - 13-6) and earned the $100,000 grand prize.

At the ESL Pro League Season 19 FaZe Clan were placed in Group A. In the first match FaZe defeated Imperial Esports on two maps (Inferno - 13-10, Nuke - 13-6) and made it to the semi-finals. There the team again failed to cope with Astralis and fell to the middle part of the net, where they outplayed Virtus.pro (Vertigo - 13-10, Mirage - 13-4). A win over Eternal Fire in a full bo3 series (Anubis - 9-13, Mirage - 13-11, Inferno - 13-8) put FaZe Clan into the quarter-finals of the play-offs. There karrigan and his teammates outplayed Monte with the result 2:1 (Vertigo - 13-7, Nuke - 14-16, Mirage - 13-10).

Statistics of FaZe Clan's last results:

• Victory over Monte with the score 2:1
• Victory over Eternal Fire with the score 2:1
• Victory over Virtus.pro with the score 2:0
• 0:2 defeat to Astralis
• 2:0 win over Imperial Esports

History of matches Natus Vincere - FaZe Clan

Since the beginning of this year the participants of this confrontation have played against each other only once. In the PGL Major Copenhagen 2024 NAVI defeated FaZe Clan with the score 2:1 (Ancient - 13-9, Mirage - 2-13, Inferno - 13-3).

Predicted result of the match Natus Vincere - FaZe Clan

Recently the teams have already played a full bo3 series, and at the current tournament both participants have shown that they can lose at least one card. Let's bet on the total of cards more than 2.5.