Matchförutsägelse: NiP - MOUZ | CS2 (CS:GO)

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Summer CSGO is heating up. Germany's Cologne is hosting the top-ranked IEM Cologne 2023 with 24 teams.

The tournament features a Play-In stage, where 16 teams battle it out for a chance to advance to the group stage of IEM Cologne with a prize pool of $1,000,000. We have already witnessed the opening matches and now we are talking about the second round of the top grid.

Opening up the second round of the Play-In IEM Cologne 2023 Play-In will be MOUZ and Ninjas in Pyjamas. This is the first top qualifying stage match in the bo3 format.

The winner of the duel will earn a slot into the group stage, while the loser will fall to the lower grid. Let's see who goes where.

Let's go.

NiP uniforms

Let's start the match breakdown by analysing the Ninjas in Pyjamas' match form. In this match, the Swedish club will face us as favourites.

It is easy to understand the position of Ninjas in Pyjamas. After the transfer window, the Swedish club looks great, which is evident from the few but quality matches that were played before IEM Cologne.

If in the first half of the year NiP were remembered only for getting to Paris Major 2023 after 7th place at European RMR B, and then TOP-8-11 at the Paris tournament itself. It got better after coming out of the competition break.

NiP lost to Last Change Qualifiers at Gamers8 on the Long Crest of the second half of the year, but then played solidly at BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2023. They managed to reach the Autumn Finals quite easily, beating grands like Vitality.

• NiP lineup: REZ, hampus, Brollan, headtr1ck, k0nfig.

NiP are approaching IEM Cologne 2023 in full readiness. Before the tournament, the team did not make any substitutions. This will clearly play to the Swedish club's advantage.

In the first round of the Play-In IEM Cologne 2023 Ninjas in Pyjamas met Into The Breach. The match ended with NiP taking the easiest walk of the NiP to Ancient with a score of 16-5.

Ninjas in Pyjamas Mappool

Ninjas in Pyjamas' top 1 map for the last 3 months is Mirage. Ninjas in Pyjamas has a mind-blowing winrate of 92% with 13 games played.

They also played Inferno where they won 5 matches out of 7 games. Nuke is also in plus winrate, where the "ninjas" have 3 wins from 5 matches.

The most not favoured card for NiP will be Vertigo. NiP has 6 cards and only 1 win.

MOUZ Form.

We continue the match analysis with the analysis of MOUZ form. In this match the "mice" will clearly be number two.

The 14th team of the world ranking has literally just renewed the squad and for them IEM Cologne is a test. We have already seen how difficult it is for MOUZ to play against teams a few goals lower than NiP.

MOUZ's main achievement this season was reaching the finals of Intel Extreme Masters Dallas 2023. There they battled ENCE, but were defeated 0-2.

Prior to Long Cologne IEM Cologne MOUZ made a splash at the Elisa Invitational Spring 2023. They failed to jump above the top 4 - they were beaten by Apeks on their way to the Grand Final.

Back in the season, they made it to the top 8 at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR A, and then to the event itself. It didn't end well, as the team finished Top-24 at Major e.

• MOUZ line-up: frozen, siuhy, torzsi, Jimpphat, xertioN.

IEM Cologne 2023 will be a test for the new line-up of the "mice". After Elisa Spring, siuhy, who previously played for GamerLegion, and Jimpphat, a youth player from MOUZ Nxt, joined the squad.

In the debut match, the revamped MOUZ roster played against The MongolZ. An easy outing on paper ended in a nervy bo1 on dops, followed by a 22-19 win for MOUZ on Nuke.

MOUZ Mapple

MOUZ's favourite card remains Inferno. The Mice have played it three times in the last 3 months and won all their games there. Nuke is also doing well, with MOUZ winning 3 out of 4 Nuke games played.

Among the good options are Vertigo and Ancient, where MOUZ have 2 wins in 3 games each.

The most undesirable map is Mirage. MOUZ have played it 6 times, but won only once.

History of head-to-head meetings

Earlier the teams saw each other in official matches at the Challenger Stage in Paris. There NiP defeated their vis-a-vis.

Predicted result of the NiP - MOUZ match

In this European derby, in my opinion, everything is clear. MOUZ have no chance against the current NiP.

It's enough to look at the game against The MongolZ to realise how raw the newly assembled squad looks. NiP, on the other hand, have a clear upswing in play and a fairly stable form, which will allow the Swedes to close the series dry.

Bottom line: 2-0 in favour of NiP.