Maç Tahmini: OG - Team Liquid | Dota 2

The playoffs of The International 2022 are approaching their climax. Half of the teams that reached the TOP-8 stage remained at the tournament.

Ahead of us is the 3rd round of the lower bracket of the playoffs of The International 2022. It will mark the confrontation between Liquid and OG.

European derby with a special history for the TOP-6 of the largest tournament of the year. This fight is not to be missed.

Let's figure out who will be stronger in this confrontation and make it to the next round of the main stage, and who will have to be content with a place in the TOP-8.

Form Team Liquid

In this match, Team Liquid will play as the favorite. The chance of winning this title club is estimated at a coefficient of around 1.6.

There are no typos, let alone errors in the coefficients. It is Liquid here that is the main contender for victory in the match, and this is justified by the effectiveness of “liquid”.

Not the one that they showed during the rating season at LAN events, but the “fresh” game of Team Liquid. Performance at The International.

So far, at the main tournament of the year, Team Liquid look cheerful. They move methodically through the playoffs, but not without great difficulty.

Team Liquid results at The International 2022

The team made it to The International 2022 by qualifying through Western European qualifiers for the “Last Chance Tournament”. LCQ for Liquid ended in TOP-2, which guaranteed them a place in the group stage.

In the TI 22 group stage, Team Liquid ended up in Group A, where they faced off against PSG.LGD, Royal Never Give Up, OG, EG, and other DotA “creams”. Their performance was memorable and gave pleasant emotions.

Courage obtained at the Last Chance Qualfiier was converted into second place in the group stage. Liquid played with a score of 5-3-1 in the series, losing only PSG.LGD in a head-to-head match.

In the first round of the playoffs, Team Liquid had a chance to face Team Aster. Another Chinese club defeated Liquid, but this time by sending them to the loser's bracket.

Liquid's right to stay in the tournament was contested by Entity. The European Bo3 lasted 3 full maps, where Liquid turned the game around at the matchpoint, knocking out their competitors in the region and passing the referee.

Team Liquid roster

• MATUMBAMAN
• MiCke
• zai
• Boxi
• InsaNia

Liquid has a roster that is experienced enough to bounce back from their loss against Aster. Add here a wide coaching staff and get a working mechanism, but not uninterrupted. The key here is experience and stress resistance, which, by the way, their counterparts also have.

Heroes Team Liquid

In their picks, Liquid focuses on Death Prophet (4 matches, 75% wins), Mars (4 matches, 50% wins), Slark (3 matches, 66% wins), Vengeful Spirit (3 matches, 66% wins), Marci and Pudge (3 matches, 66% of wins).

Don't underestimate MATUMBA's signature characters like Lone Druid, Pudge and more. Also good is MiCke, often criticized in the mid lane, but this year playing a stable tournament.

Form OG

OG will play as an outsider in this match. The chance of a European club to win is estimated by the odds around 2.1.

Despite the pre-launch tirades towards OG, now the team does not look like a leader in Europe and a potential owner of the Aegis. From that and such a coefficient.

Having made it to The International 2022, OG really looked like a potential winner. It seemed so because of OG's confident games during the season at the Majors, ESL One Stockholm 2022 in particular.

At The International 2022 itself, the team started having difficulties. And from the group stage itself.

OG results at The International 2022

At the main tournament of the year, OG got into group A. They were joined by EG, PSG.LGD, Royal Never Give Up and the same Liquid.

Having earned several easy victories on the map, in matches with teams like Soniqs and BOOM, the team felt good right up to the moment they hit the giants: PSG.LGD, Evil Geniuses.

In the middle of the group stage, OG broke down, but they had enough character to stay in the TOP-4. So we got to the playoffs, where the problems only worsened.

The first playoff opponent for OG was Tundra Esports. To say that OG were shocked would be an understatement.

OG couldn't handle the onslaught of Tundra, who took less than an hour to deal with their opponent. Having fallen into the lower bracket, OG met Gaimin Gladiators on their way.

It seems like a passing match dragged on for 3 maps with incomprehensible coups in places. With grief in half, thanks to bzm on Invoker, OG defeated their colleagues in the shop to now play with another representative of Western Europe.

OG roster at The International 2022

• Yuragi
• bzm
• ATF
• Taiga
• Misha

OG is the most experimental team of the tournament. Yuragi has played the most characters, and it seems that such a wide hype pool is detrimental to the team. In the match against GG, the Ukrainian player was either nervous, or there were some other reasons, but he performed worse than his average condition. Recall at least the “extravaganza” on Faceless Void with Chronosphere as allies.

Heroes OG Esports

In this tournament, OG play in fact the same as during the season. They get some profit from the “prepared”, but as we can see, more “meta” teams eat them up.

Most played characters: Oracle (8 matches, 62% wins), Razor (6 matches, 50% wins), Timbersaw (5 matches, 40% wins), Snapfire (4 matches, 50% wins), Jakiro (3 matches), 100% wins).

History of personal confrontations

Previously, the teams played 5 times during the season. In the third round, DPC Western Europe won Secret, then won OG three times (including the Major), and finally, Liquid played better in the group stage.

Match outcome

In this match, you can expect a bright DotA, which is almost always bestowed by teams from Western Europe. The downside of this is a large amount of marriage, which I expect from both clubs.

The condition for Liquid to win is the inclusion of Zai. The conditions for the triumph of OG are a good game for Yuragi on a comfortable character and a good night's sleep bzm.

Liquid seems to have fewer incomings to win. I believe in them.

Outcome: victory for Team Liquid.