Maç Tahmini: NaVi - Team Liquid | CS2 (CS:GO)

NAVI and Team Liquid will meet in the third round of the main stage of IEM Rio Major 2022. So far, the teams have shown an unintelligible start at this championship.

But if the "Born to Win" played twice on the Mirage map with problems, including a comeback by Cloud9, then the North American team managed to suffer a crushing defeat from MOUZ.

To put it bluntly, Team Liquid, in theory, has a good chance of upsetting the favorite. But something tells me that now NAVI will work on the mistakes and quickly correct the situation so as not to aggravate their situation.

Form NAVI

The fourth team in the world ranking recently shot at the IEM Road to Rio 2022 Europe RMR B, where they got three confident victories and made their way directly to the "legends".

Now the Ukrainian team has arrived at IEM Rio Major 2022, where in the first match they won a very difficult victory over Vitality, and even in intense overtime.

However, in the next round, NAVI, having a huge advantage, could not cope with Cloud9 and suffered a rather unexpected defeat. And yet there is logic in that the team will improve and enter the server with more motivation.

Latest NAVI results:

• Victory over Illuminar Gaming with a score of 16:5.
• Victory over MOUZ with a score of 16:11.
• The victory over the Outsiders with a score of 2:0.
• Victory over Vitality with a score of 25:21.
• Defeat from Cloud9 with a score of 14:16.

The best NAVI maps:

• Dust 2 - 80% of wins.
• Mirage - 73% of wins.
• Inferno - 57% of wins.

Normally, Born to Win would turn down the Vertigo card, but in recent months the team has been preparing something.

Form Team Liquid

The third team in the world rankings performed well at their IEM Road to Rio 2022 Americas RMR, where they took first place peremptorily. True, in some places the "liquid" had failures, as, for example, in games with MIBR and Complexity.

As for the start at IEM Rio Major 2022, here the "liquid" showed a terrible game, losing to MOUZ in the case. Moreover, the North American team did not even bother to adapt, for which it logically paid the price.

Fortunately, in the second round, Team Liquid found the strength to cope with Sprout. Another question is that it was an outsider of the championship, so drawing conclusions from one game is such a task.

Latest Team Liquid results:

• Victory over MIBR with a score of 19:16.
• Victory over Complexity with a score of 2:1.
• Victory over Evil Geniuses with a score of 2:0.
• Lost to MOUZ with a score of 2:16.
• Victory over Sprout with a score of 16:5.

The best maps of Team Liquid:

• Ancient - 83% of wins.
• Mirage - 80% of wins.
• Inferno - 75% of wins.
• Dust 2 - 60% of wins.
• Overpass - 57% of wins.
• Vertigo - 50% of wins.

In turn, the North American team continues to ban Nuke.

Statistics of meetings NAVI — Team Liquid

Within the framework of the current season, the teams held two meetings:

• NAVI's victory at BLAST Premier Spring Groups 2022 with a score of 2:0.
• NAVI's victory at BLAST Premier Fall Groups 2022 with a score of 16:4.

I note that the last time the teams played on the Dust 2 map.

Prediction for the match NAVI — Team Liquid

Personally, I have few concerns about NAVI, since this team usually accelerates on the first day of the tournament, and then peaks. In turn, the North American team showed an ambiguous start in the championship, from which it is difficult to extract anything.

Still, it is worth looking at the statistics that speak in favor of the Born to Win. It is clear that we still need to wait for the map, but without Ancient and Inferno, Team Liquid will have a minimum chance.

Therefore, in this case, I would recommend betting on the victory of the NAVI team.