Match Prediction: NRG - Ninjas in Pyjamas | CS2 (CS:GO)
DreamHack Masters Stockholm 2018The last time when the teams played together happened in December 2017 and despite the win of NRG eSports by the score of 16:14, we should not take the results into account as the match was held long time ago and both of the teams had replacements in their rosters.
NRG eSports have been in a great shape for some time and in last several months they managed to take the second place at StarSeries & i-League CS:GO Season 5 and to get the 3-4 position at Esports Championship Series Season 5 - Finals, and a couple of weeks ago the roster won Intel Extreme Masters XIII - Shanghai. Thanks to the achievements, the roster holds the ninth position in the world rating.
Meanwhile, Ninjas in Pyjamas haven’t been able to find their game for a long time and even the fact that Xizt joined the team didn’t help them. Now Forest and Co hold the fourteenth place in the list of the best teams according to HLTV and the roster was able to win only Europe Minor Championship - London 2018 in last several month. The guys only took part in ESL One: Cologne 2018, CS:GO Asia Championships 2018 and StarSeries & i-League CS:GO Season 5, but there they could achieve nothing more than the 5-6 position.
The bookmakers think that the pair is equal and set the coefficient of the win of NRG eSports equal to 1.88, while NiP’s triumph is also evaluated as 1.88. We will lean towards the guys from North America as they have been demonstrating good results recently ad are in a good shape but we should not ignore NiP especially if we pay attention to the fact that the match is held up to one victory.