Matchförutsägelse: Team Vitality - Fnatic | VALORANT

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0:2 (Fnatic)

Team Vitality and Fnatic will meet in the seventh round of the VALORANT Champions Tour 2023 regular season: EMEA League. Surprisingly, Fnatic have a game in hand, but the team is still in first place.

Team Vitality, on the other hand, is not as good, as they have suffered three defeats in six games. And everyone is used to the team's fast-paced style, the more so that won't surprise the favourites.

Therefore here I would rely on the smashing victory of Team Fnatic that finally found itself and must not stumble in such a situation.

Team Vitality's form

The third-ranked team in Europe seemed to have a cool run during the VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: EMEA League regular season, where they beat Team Liquid and KOI.

However, Team Vitality started to slip up a little more frequently, with losses to BBL Esports and FUT Esports in particular, brightening things up with a logical victory over Karmine Corp.

Still, in the last round, the European team were unable to cope with Natus Vincere, showing a bunch of extra moves and bad rounds that decided the outcome of the encounter.

Team Vitality's latest results:

A 2-0 win over KOI.
A 0-2 loss to FUT Esports.
2-0 win over Karmine Corp.
0-2 defeat to BBL Esports.
0-2 defeat by Natus Vincere.

Team Vitality's best scores:

Split - 75% wins.
Ascent - 67% wins.
Lotus - 67% wins.
Fracture - 50% wins.

Let's not forget that the European team is not shown on the Icebox map.

Fnatic uniforms

The first team in the European ranking has recently won the VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: LOCK//IN São Paulo, where it played very strongly.

The European side has continued to show their mettle in the VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: EMEA League, where they have now taken five straight victories.

Most importantly, Fnatic have only lost one card so far, which speaks volumes about their incredible preparation and superiority over every opponent in the championship.

Fnatic's latest results:

A 2-0 win over Giants Gaming.
A 2-1 win over BBL Esports.
Victory over Team Heretics 2-0.
Beat Team Liquid 2-0.
Beat FUT Esports 2-0.

Fnatic's best records:

Pearl - 100% wins.
Haven - 100% wins.
Icebox - 100% wins.
Fracture - 100% wins.
Split - 75% wins.
Ascent - 75% wins.
Lotus - 75% wins.

In turn, Fnatic will usually forfeit to Pearl.

Team Vitality - Fnatic encounter statistics

The teams have not yet met in their current line-ups.

Team Vitality - Fnatic vs.

It's hard to think of factors that can help Team Vitality. It is clear that there is no way the team can win without a sensation and a big win. And here it all comes down to the number of cards, of which I believe there will only be two. Therefore in this case I'd recommend a 2-0 win for Team Fnatic.

0:2 (Fnatic)

Fnatic haven’t conceded more then 6 rounds on a map in their last 6 maps and I expect no different here.

Fnatic are the best team by far at EMEA while Vitality haven’t shown us anything special.

Vitality’s recent performance’s against Navi and BBL were fairly competitive, however this should give Fnatic enough to review in terms of their strats and where they can exploit them on, especially on a map like lotus which I think we will see in this BO3.

I hope for a competitive game between these two but I think it’s going to be far from it. I’m expecting something in the ballpark of 13:5/13:6 across the two maps with Fnatic securing an easy W here in week 6.

Derke has also been a real standout for Fnatic (nothing new) and I’ve been loving what he’s outputting these last 3. He’s had ratings of 1.24/1.55/1.58 and if Vitality want a map here this is where they’re going to have to start.

On the other hand I do expect a good game from ceNder at around a 1.10 which will be a good game considering what I expect the outcome to be.

All in all, I just don’t think Vitality have the firepower to take this one out even considering the Fnatic dont have much to play for other then them wanting to keep the 2:0 streak alive. This game will basically go 1 of 2 ways, Vitality will win solely off Fnatic trying new comps, strats or maps OR Fnatic continue to drill their comps and maps to reinforce the little things they need to improve to perfect their map picks and 2:0 them.