Match Prediction: ENCE - Movistar Riders | CS2 (CS:GO)
ESL Pro League Season 18Welcome to EGamersWorld.
ESL Pro League Season 18 continues despite the high-profile and anticipated release of Counter-Strike 2. Apparently, teams will continue to play the prestigious championship on the CSGO version.
Be that as it may, the quarter-finals stage of the EPL is starting, which can't help but make us happy. ENCE and Movistar Riders will face off in the third match of the tourney.
The match promises to be an interesting one for The International, as the pair of participants is not exactly expected. While it's quite normal to see ENCE at this stage of the championship, it's a real breakthrough for Movistar Riders.
Let's try to see if MR will be able to compete with such a formidable and difficult opponent, or if we will see an obvious victory of ENCE without any The International rigs. Here we go.
ENCE form
Let's open the match analysis with the analysis of ENCE's form. In this match the Finnish club will play the first number one.
This is what the esports betting sites say. The odds for ENCE's victory in this ESL Pro League Season 18 quarter-final are at 1.2.
Such a figure fits into the logic of what is happening. At least because ENCE have looked like a confident world-class team all year long.
During the season, the team finished top-3 on CCT Central Europe Malta Vibes, top-4 on ESL Pro League Season 17, and also reached top-8 European RMR B - qualifying event for BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023. ENCE also played at the Major, but it was TOP-14, which is hardly a worthy result.
IEM Dallas 2023 turned out to be much more pleasant. ENCE looked quite cheerful throughout the event, which allowed them to defeat MOUZ in the grand finals with a score of 2-0. Just before IEM Cologne 2023, ESL Challenger Katowice was played, where they had to defeat Vp in the grand final 1-2.
- ENCE roster: Snappi, NertZ, Maden, dycha, SunPayus .
ENCE have been playing in a stable roster for almost half a year. SunPayus and NertZ headline the roster with a KDA of 1.12.
Thanks to their victory at IEM Dallas 2023 ENCE started Cologne from the group stage. The first opponent was the Poles from 9INE, who gave the Finns serious problems, but lost with a score of 1-2 and a series of dops on the decisive map.
The next match was a match against Fnatic. ENCE won both maps, leaving Fnatic no special chances.
In the match for the Grand Final ENCE played against Heroic. Being an outsider, the Finns took a very good approach to the match and shut down the top 1 team in the world with a score of 2-1 in a tough Bo3.
Next up was a match against Vitality and as a result a passage to the Grand Final of IEM Cologne 2023. ENCE was not enough for the title, G2 Esports were stronger.
After an offensive Cologne 2023 ENCE started Gamers8 on a high note. They defeated Liquid 2-0 in the first match of the tournament.
In the semi-final match they played against Cloud9. Again, the Finns closed the series with a score of 2-0, leaving little chance for the Americans.
Later ENCE beat Heroic again, and dry, and in the grand final Gamers8 faced Vitality. Again, ENCE failed to take the title, Ledgeiv with a 1-2 score.
At the ESL Pro League Season 18 Long Round of the ESL Pro League, ENCE faced off against Evil Geniuses. The North American club even gave a fight, but only on the second map (14-16 Nuke), but still lost.
ENCE faced MIBR in the match to reach the final of the top grid of Group B at ESL Pro League Season 18. The new generation of the legendary Brazilian tag showed beautiful CSGO, and it was enough for one map.
Before the play-offs ENCE defeated BIG in a match to advance to the quarter-finals. The game ended 2-1 and ENCE were the winners of their group.
ENCE Mapple
ENCE has two 100 per cent maps. They are Nuke with 9 wins in 9 matches and Anubis with 5 matches and 0 losses.
Still playing Ancient (66% wins in 3 matches). Still playing Mirage (9 matches, 4 wins). Vertigo with 2 wins and 3 losses and Overpass (2 wins in 7 matches).
Not playing Inferno.
Movistar Riders uniform
We continue the match analysis with Movistar Riders form. In this match the team is playing in the status of an outfielder.
Bookmakers do not believe in Movistar Riders' victory. The odds for such an outcome are negligible and are around 4.
Still, it's not bad for Movistar Riders. Against ENCE, they are frankly weak and getting here to the EPL quarter-finals is already an achievement.
The Spanish club has had a hyper busy year. However, busy doesn't always mean productive.
Among the many events Movistar Riders mostly attended small championships with a very dubious pool of participants, but there were also some quite prestigious events. Among those worth mentioning are CCT Central Europe Malta Finals, where MR took the top 4 and Elisa Invitational Winter 2023, where they also finished in the top four.
When it comes to the top events, last season of the ESL Pro League was definitely one of them. At ESL Pro League Season 17 Movistar Riders were ranked in the top 16 and they have already repeated this result, and to break it it is enough to win the only Bo3.
- Movistar Riders roster: mopoz, ALEX, Martinez, JUST, adams.
Movistar Riders played a number of small events like CCT Online Finals #2 and IEM Masters Sydney qualifiers before the ESL Pro League Season 18 Long Conference, where they didn't find success. Movistar Riders won the RTP Arena Cup 2023, boosting their morale before the ESL Pro League Season 18 Long Sogpeg.
The Pro League itself is going extremely well. Movistar Riders made it to the second round of play-offs by advancing to the final of the top grid in Group A: they beat FURIA and GamerLegion 2-0, but Ledge and Vitality 0-2.
In the last match Movistar Riders faced 9Z Team. The even match ended logically, on the 3rd map, but in favour of the Spaniards from MR.
Movistar Riders mappool
The most successful map for Movistar Riders is Nuke, where the Spaniards have 3 wins and 1 loss. Next comes Vertigo with a score of 2-1 and Ancient with a score of 3-2.
Neutral choices are Inferno and Anubis. Both maps have been played 4 times and on both maps the stats are 2-2.
The worst situation is on Overpass, where MR won 2 matches out of 6.
Mirage are not playing.
History of head-to-head meetings
Last time the clubs crossed paths in CCT Central Europe Series Finals #1. Then ENCE won with the score 2-1.
Predicted result of ENCE vs Movistar Riders at ESL Pro League Season 18
I don't expect much The International riga from this match. In my opinion, Movistar Riders will not go further than ENCE, because they have already jumped above their heads.
From the Finns I expect a confident game and finally a class in the late stages of major championships. This is a more than convenient opponent to show their strength.
Bottom line: 2-0 win for ENCE.
Today we look at who will go to 1/2 of the championship to shoot further in a game that technically does not exist.
European team of ENC meets its rival two steps away from the final. In the group stage the guys decided not to invent a bicycle and took advantage of the weak and average pool of opponents, closing three games in their favour. We don't mention Evil Geniuses, but the victory over MiBr and BIG was. But I would like to point out that three cards were played there! And MiBr at that point were gritting their teeth in every game for every round. What can I say about the form, a great playing squad with ambitions for the final, that's it. Map pool is excellent, all maps except permoban have good to excellent scores.
Muvistar riders are lucky in roulette, they will get a 9z opponent at 1/8 and they don't miss this chance. But what's next, gentlemen? I don't think so. In general, I do not understand at the expense of what the guys will pull, and moreover, even weakly believe in one card from them. It is clear that ENC are not clean in this respect, they give cards, including in face-to-face meetings. But there are other circumstances and other priorities. The importance of this moment forces to play full-focused squads that want to win and are motivated. ENC are motivated, which means I believe a salad score is on the cards.
Ithink it is worthy to take 2:0 from ENCE for 1.75
Bookmakers & Statistics
At the moment, the majority of bookmakers unanimously see the team ENCE as the favorite of the game with average odds on a victory in the sum of 1.166. Movistar Riders chances to prevail are evaluated with average odds 6.563 by bookmakers.
Team statistics in recent matches
Last Matches | ENCE | Movistar Riders |
5 matches (wins) | 4 | 4 |
10 matches (wins) | 8 | 7 |
Gamblers will definitely be interested in the statistics of personal meetings between the teams. The teams played 9 matches with each other before. In these matches ENCE won 4 times, Movistar Riders active consisits of 5 wins.