Match Prediction: FURIA - NiP | Counter-Strike (CS2)
IEM Katowice 2021FURIA and NiP will meet at IEM Katowice 2021, starting their journey at the legendary championship. It is difficult to assess the chances of the Brazilian team, which has failed in recent tournaments. But the Swedes are very surprising, demonstrating confident Counter Strike.
FURIA Form
The 11th team in the world ranking failed in January within the BLAST Premier Global Final 2020 and cs_summit 7. At the same time, in two tournaments, the Brazilians beat Cloud9 only twice (2: 1, 2: 1), failing meetings with stronger opponents. However, it is already known for sure that FURIA will start IEM Katowice 2021 with a junior in the roster, which will debut on European soil.
Best FURIA cards:
- Train - 100% wins.
- Inferno - 56% wins.
- Mirage - 50% wins.
However, the Brazilians have a lot of problems with other cards. Also, FURIA hasn't played Dust 2 for a long time.
NiP shape
The 15th team in the world ranking greatly surprised everyone at the last BLAST Premier Spring Groups 2021. The Swedes not only made it to the BLAST Premier Spring Finals, but also beat Astralis (2: 0) and BIG (2: 0). However, in the final, the team still lost to BIG (0: 2), casting doubt on the long-term prospects. Already within the IEM Katowice 2021 Play-In, the Swedes beat Complexity (16: 7) and Virtus.pro (2: 0), showing an excellent level of preparation.
Best NiP cards:
- Inferno - 67% wins.
- Dust 2 - 67% wins.
- Overpass - 50% wins.
However, the team is still very bad with other cards. At the same time, the Swedes have never won a Vertigo in the new season.
Personal meetings statistics
The teams have not met before.
Forecast for the match FURIA - NiP
It seems that the Brazilians will once again quickly leave the championship, returning to North America. The thing is that the team demonstrates sterile Counter Strike over and over again, to which all opponents have got used to. And if in November FURIA could surprise, then in recent months the team has only been disappointing. In doing so, the Swedes are doing incredible things, winning with tremendous confidence. Therefore, here I propose to bet on the victory of the NiP team with odds of 1.60.
Bookmakers & Statistics
FURIA are listed as the favorites of the match in the majority of bookmakers and odds on them are equal to 2.171. NiP, in turn, are the outsiders of the match. Odds on their victory are about 3.519.
If you stand in solidarity with bookmaker companies and think that FURIA will prevail, at you will find the best odds on the team — 2.416. If in your opinion, the outsider achieved victory in the match, you can make the most profitable bet on NiP at because odds on their triumph are equal to 17.