Maç Tahmini: MOUZ - Vitality | Counter-Strike (CS2)

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Big CSGO doesn't think it's going to end. IEM Colgone 2023 continues in Cologne, the most prestigious tournament of the summer with a top line-up of competitors.

We continue to watch what's happening in the group stage. There are already 16 top teams competing for the $1,000,000 prize pool.

Let's talk about Group B, which will be opened today with the top grid matches. Vitality and MOUZ will play their first match.

The winner of the match will guarantee themselves entry into the play-offs, while the loser will continue their journey through IEM Cologne 2023 in the lower grid, where they will wait for the winner of the Astralis/NiP pairing. Let's see which of the teams will be stronger in this B3 clash and get a place in the play-offs, and who will have to sweat for it.

Let's go.

Vitality Form

Let's open the match analysis by analysing Team Vitality's form. In this match the Bees will play the first number one.

Bookmakers are confident in the early success of Vitality. The odds for their victory are at 1.4.

It's hard to argue with the pre-match odds. Vitality do look like a team ready to place high as the tournament progresses.

The first half of the 2023 season has been a real treat for Vitality. Starting it off with a win at the Blast Premier Spring Groups and a top-6 finish 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.

Vitality's mappool

The best Vitality 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 played.

Form MOUZ.

Let's continue the match analysis with the analysis of MOUZ form. In this match they will play as outsiders.

Bookmakers are not ready to believe in MOUZ, despite their winning record at IEM Cologne 2023. The odds for their victory are at 2.9.

MOUZ's lag can be attributed to their performance over the year. The team has achievements, but they are not comparable to Vitality's performance.

The 14th ranked team in the world has just renewed their roster and IEM Cologne will be a challenge for them. 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 in the 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 used to play 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 nervous Bo1 on the dopes, followed by a 22-19 win for MOUZ on Nuke.

Already in the match to qualify for the group stage MOUZ were much more confident. They beat NiP 2-0 (16-12 Nuke and 16-7 Inferno) without any problems.

The first match of the group stage was not a big challenge for MOUZ either. NaVi lost at Ancient with a score of 16-9 and Overpass with a score of 16-12.

MOUZ's Mapple

MOUZ's favourite map 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

The last time the teams played each other was back in November last year. Then MOUZ defeated Vitality IEM Rio 2022 with a score of 19-17.

Predicted result of the match Vitality - MOUZ

MOUZ are looking very buoyant at this tournament. The team is showing increasing play and after a very difficult opening game against TheMongolZ, the "mice" are gaining and gaining, but Vitality is a different class.

I admit that MOUZ will take their peak, but not more than that.

Bottom line: Vitality wins.