Match Prediction: G2 Esports - OG | CS2 (CS:GO)

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We continue to follow the action at the BLAST Premier Fall European Showdown 2023. In a modest but certainly important qualifier, 8 teams from Europe are battling it out. Their goal is to win the championship and then directly qualify for BLAST Fall Finals 2023, where the stakes will be much higher.

Among the participants of the European division there are enough top teams. The last match of the first round of the BLAST Premier Fall European Showdown 2023 will feature one of them, namely G2.

"Samurai" will open BLAST Premier Fall European Showdown 2023 with a match against OG. It should be quite a spectacle, as G2 is at least one of the contenders for the autumn finals.

Let's try to find out how this match will end, and who will be the stronger player, who will go further down the BLAST Premier Fall European Showdown 2023 grid and play the winner of the C9/Movistar Riders pairing in the next round.

Let's go.

G2 Esports Form

We open the match breakdown with an analysis of G2 Esports' match form. In this match, the Samurai play the first number one.

​Esport betting sites are confident in the success of G2. The odds for the victory of the top European club are at around 1.13.

This match is the most uneven in terms of the gap between the favourite and the outsider. This is the case because even the sometimes chaotic G2, who are not always able to cope with the pressure, look a few goals higher than their next favourite OG.

G2 Esports have been on the podiums of major championships for almost the whole year. Their rise as a top team started with BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2023 and IEM Katowice 2023. Both championships G2 passed confidently and at two tournaments they deservedly became champions.

Next, the "samurai" were stormy. Last season ESL Pro League Season 17 G2 Esports finished on the 9-12 line, which is clearly not the level of the team that recently won Katowice 2023.

After a frankly weak performance at EPL Season 17 G2 Esports played at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023. In Paris, NiKo and company had a real fiasco, as the tournament for them ended at the TOP-14 stage, which certainly did not fit into G2's plans.

• G2 Esports line-up: huNter, NiKo, m0NESY, jks, HooXi.

Prior to ESL Pro League Season 18, G2 Esports made their mark on several other major tournaments. These were BLAST Premier: Spring Finals and Fall Groups, where G2 took top 4 and top 8 respectively.

Next up was IEM Cologne 2023 and finally a win. In the Grand Final they beat ENCE 3-1, thus taking another IEM title for the year.

The last championship was Gamers8. The biggest commercial tournament of the season ended with G2 Esports in the top 4.

G2 Esports started off ESL Pro League Season 18 with a betting tirerable win. They beat Lynn Vision 2-0 in their opening match, but to be fair, they were close to a fiasco on the first map.

In the match to advance to the Group A finals, G2 Esports played against Virtus.pro. Not without problems, but the "samurai" defeated Vp with a score of 2-1. After the difficult victory, G2 Esports earned another one, not much easier than the previous one. That time they beat Complexity, thus clawing their way into the playoffs.

G2 Esports left the play-offs at the quarter-finals stage, where they directly qualified from the group. They lost to MOUZ, who later became ESL Pro League Season 18 champions. They lost with a fight - 1-2.

G2 Esports Mappool

The main map of G2 is Ancient. G2 played 8 matches there, of which they won 6.

Then comes Anubis (3 games, 2 wins), Vertigo (5 games, 3 wins), Inferno (12 games, 58% wins).

G2 Esports has no minus winnings on mapx. Among the "worst" choices are Nuke (7 matches, 4 wins), Mirage (4 wins, 4 losses).

OG Form

We continue the match analysis by analysing OG's form. In this match they will have to play the second number.

This is confirmed by the bookmakers. The odds for OG to win this match are at around 5.3.

OG this season is stormy, so it is not surprising that they are in the catching-up position. And the gap is more than serious.

OG can't boast of any big wins on the year. In the season they played a lot of places, but there are no results at all.

From the most notable - 7th place on BLAST.tv European RMR A and passage to the Major tournament, but the failure directly in Paris. At the actual Paris Major 2023 the club took TOP-22.

Among the A Crossovers, we can mention only Brazy Party. The commercial tournament ended for OG at the stage of TOP-4, which was the best result for the whole year.

Before IEM Cologne 2023, OG failed to qualify for the last chance at Gamers8, and finished in the top 12 at BLAST Premier: Fall 2023 Groups.

• OG lineup: nexa, F1KU, FASHR, k1to, regali.

The latest replacements in the form of FASHR, k1to and Regali joining the team a month ago are not paying off yet. The Frenchman and the German have ratings below 0.89 and 0.94 and this is the worst among the team, which, however, does not shine with bright personalities.

IEM Cologne 2023 was no exception in terms of performance. The team managed to climb into the middle of the final table, finishing in the top 12.

After the big IEM Cologne 2023, OG started playing smaller tournaments. These included CCT Online Finals #2 with a top-6 finish, CCT East Europe Series #1 with a top-16 finish, Pinnacle Cup, and Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #2, where OG finished in the top-8.

The last event before BLAST Premier Fall European Showdown 2023 was CCT Online Finals #3, where OG finished in the Top 12. OG are rapidly moving towards being a top-2 team, and in fact they are. A success at the BLAST Premier Fall European Showdown 2023 will help to rectify the situation, but to do so, they need to pass G2 Esports and that looks like an impossible task.

OG Mapple

The only map OG have won in the last 3 months is Mirage. They had a win against BIG, but 2 losses later.

They tried to make something up on Inferno and Ancient, but they lost twice there, and then there was Overpass and the same loss.

History of head-to-head meetings

The last time the teams faced each other was at BLAST Premier Fall Groups 2023, where G2 won cleanly.

Predicted result of G2 Esports vs OG at BLAST Premier Fall European Showdown 2023

Given OG's performance in the second half of the year, and really before that, I don't see where they should pass G2. NiKo and company look ultimative against their counterparts and are definitely looking to secure a slot for the Autumn Finals, which means they'll have no trouble shutting down OG-level opponents.

The result: a 2-0 win for G2 Esports.