Prediction on match CS2 G2 Esports - BIG

G2 and BIG will meet at IEM Katowice 2021, arguing for the right to stay in the championship. It's a shame to realize, but the Balkan-French have only one road - to the abyss. And even against the background of possible problems, BIG's team has the minimum number of chances to win.

Form G2

The tenth team in the world ranking has been showing terrible results lately. Firstly, the Balkan-French have failed in the BLAST Premier Global Final 2020, beating only FURIA (2: 1). Secondly, having started BLAST Premier Spring Groups 2021 with a victory over Evil Geniuses (2: 0), the team could not build on their success, losing to Complexity (0: 2) and Evil Geniuses (1: 2). At the same time, at the start of IEM Katowice 2021, the Balkan-French lost to Team Spirit (1: 2), falling into the “losers” bracket.

Best G2 cards:

• Vertigo - 67% wins.
• Dust 2 - 62% wins.
• Mirage - 56% wins.

While the team does not play on Overpass, there is immediately a whole scattering of cards that the team should pay attention to. In addition, with the statistics available on Train and Inferno, it is very difficult to count on a decent result.

BIG shape

The fourth team in the world ranking recently won BLAST Premier Spring Groups 2021. However, at IEM Katowice 2021 Play-In, the team, starting with a convincing victory over Movistar Riders (16: 6), lost to Team Spirit (0: 2) and fell into the lower bracket. Nevertheless, the Germans were able to qualify for the tournament thanks to the victory over MIBR (2: 0). However, at the IEM Katowice 2021 itself, the team had already lost to Heroic (0: 2), having failed to collect in the course of two maps.

Best BIG cards:

• Vertigo - 100% wins.
• Mirage - 57% wins.
• Inferno - 57% wins.
• Nuke - 50% wins.

We remember that the team hasn't played on the Train map for a long time. However, it's hard to argue with the fact that the team has a lot of potential on many maps.

Personal meetings statistics

In the last months of last year, the teams held three meetings:

• BIG's victory in ESL Pro League Season 12 Europe with a score of 2: 1.
• BIG's victory in DreamHack Open Fall 2020 with a score of 2: 1.
• BIG's victory in the BLAST Premier Fall 2020 Finals with a score of 2: 1.

So it turns out that G2 has very little chance, even on paper.

Forecast for the match G2 - BIG

Given all the problems that G2 has, I tend to write off the team in advance. First of all, I repeat, the team has structural problems that appeared a month after the arrival of NiKo. In addition, there is an opinion that it is the Bosnian who destroys the teams by pulling the blanket over himself. At the same time, the German team, despite the high percentage of defects, is still capable of achieving results. Therefore, I propose to bet on the BIG team to win with odds of 1.64.