Match Prediction: MOUZ - FURIA | CS2 (CS:GO)
ESL Pro League Season 18Welcome to EGamersWorld.
ESL Pro League Season 18 continues. The first round of play-offs is underway at the biggest CSGO tournament of autumn and possibly the last big one.
Closing out the first round of play-offs will be MOUZ and FURIA. The match promises to be The International interesting, as both clubs are quite a contender for the title of "stable middlers".
The winner of the match will go on to win the top prize of $200,000 and a trip to IEM Katowice 2024 and BLAST Fall Finals 2023. He will face FaZe Clan in the next round.
The loser has no future at ESL Pro League Season 18. Let's find out which of the teams will stay in the race, and who will have to say goodbye to all prospects.
Let's go.
Form MOUZ
We start the match analysis with an analysis of MOUZ's form. In this match they will play as favourites.
At least that's what the esports betting sites say. The odds on the victory of the European club are at around 1.5.
This is a very cautious indicator on the favourite, nevertheless it is quite logical. MOUZ are constantly near the top, and therefore will be favourites in the match against the tired Brazilians.
MOUZ's main achievement this season is reaching the finals of Intel Extreme Masters Dallas 2023. There they faced ENCE, but were defeated 0-2.
Prior to Long Cologne IEM Cologne MOUZ made a splash at the Elisa Invitational Spring 2023. They failed to jump above the top 4 - they were beaten by Apeks on their way to the Grand Final.
Back in the season, they made it to the top 8 at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR A, and then to the event itself. It didn't end well, as the team finished Top-24 at Major e.
- MOUZ line-up: frozen, siuhy, torzsi, Jimpphat, xertioN.
IEM Cologne 2023 will be a test for the new line-up of the "mice". After Elisa Spring, siuhy, who previously played for GamerLegion, and Jimpphat, a youth player from MOUZ Nxt, joined the squad.
In the debut match the revamped MOUZ roster played against The MongolZ. An easy outing on paper ended in a nervous Bo1 on the dopes, followed by a 22-19 win for MOUZ on Nuke.
Already in the match to qualify for the group stage MOUZ were much more confident. They beat NiP 2-0 (16-12 Nuke and 16-7 Inferno) without any problems.
The first match of the group stage was not a big challenge for MOUZ either. NaVi lost at Ancient with a score of 16-9 and Overpass with a score of 16-12.
After beating NaVi, MOUZ failed to gain a foothold and lost the next two series. As a result, the "mice" at IEM Cologne 2023 took the top 12.
Before ESL Pro League Season 18, the team played at the local championship Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #1. They managed to win, defeating BIG 2-0 in the grand finals.
In their debut match at ESL Pro League Season 18, MOUZ faced mibr. Being the favourites, MOUZ failed to defeat the Brazilians and unexpectedly ended up in the bottom of Group B.
The group stage was a mixed bag for MOUZ, but still more successful than not. An unexpected defeat in the top set cheered MOUZ up and they effortlessly went over the heads of their opponents, Heroic among them, at the bottom of the group stage table. Having not lost a single game in the bottom set, MOUZ made their way here.
MOUZ Mapple
MOUZ's favourite map remains Inferno. In the last 3 months the mice have played it three times and won all their games there. Nuke is also doing well, with MOUZ winning 3 out of 4 Nuke games played.
Among the good options are Vertigo and Ancient, where MOUZ have 2 wins in 3 games each.
The most undesirable map is Mirage. MOUZ have played it 6 times, but have only won once.
Furia Form
We continue the match analysis with the analysis of Furia's form. In this match they are playing as outsiders.
The bookmakers are also pointing to Furia's underdog status. The odds on the success of the Brazilians are at around 2.3.
Again, quite a climbing figure as for an outsider. Bookmakers believe that Furia can put up a fight.
Furia made it to ESL Pro League Season 18 thanks to the affiliate slot, which has helped them a lot. After all, according to the results of the season, the Brazilians are not happy, from the word go.
Furia attended over 10 tournaments during the year, but their successes were mediocre. The most high-profile win was a Top 1 at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: American RMR, which gave them the opportunity to make their mark at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023.
Furia finished their only Major of the season on a Minor note. They failed to rise above the top 16 and were not given by G2 Esports. The misfortunes of the Brazilians did not end there.
Before the ESL Pro League Long Season, the team failed the following events: IEM Masters Dallas 2023 (TOP-12), Thunderpick World Championship 2023 (TOP-16), and Gamers8 2023 (TOP-16).
- FURIA line-up: yuurih, arT, KSCERATO, FalleN, chelo .
Just before the ESL Pro League Season 18 Long Round, FURIA played at Pinnacle Cup V, where they managed to reach the Top 2. This was the most breakthrough result since the American RMR.
At ESL Pro League Season 18 FURIA played in Basket A. They got to the lower grid after the first round, and from there, after the second round, they went to the last chance grid. There they cameback, defeating Grayhound and GamerLegion, thus securing their slot in the play-offs.
FURIA Mapple
The best map of FURIA remains Vertigo, the Brazilians have played there 5 times and won 3 maps. Next comes Mirage, already with 7 games and 4-3 stats.
Neutral choice for Furia will be Nuke and Ancient. There the Brazilians have 6 maps and the score is 3-3 on each.
The worst is Overpass (2-3) and Inferno (1-2).
Head-to-head history
The last time the teams met each other was at IEM Dallas 2023. MOUZ celebrated victory then, beating FURIA 2-0.
Predicted result of MOUZ vs FURIA at ESL Pro League Season 18
I don't see why MOUZ should lose. As far as the group goes, the Mice were super confident. It's only worth their run through the bottom of their group at ESL Pro League Season 8. MOUZ look very strong outside of it, so they should beat the Brazilians without any difficulties.
Bottom line: Mouz win.
I hope we don't see any tears from Gawless, because I'll take an unpopular opinion. Another couple who jumped on the last Fury and Mouses tram.
Mouses, after an upgrade, (one from Akademika and the other son of Susa from GL), performed in Group B. And in fact showed a very confident result, received at the start of the flattery from MibR and after not given a card, closing EH, Heroic and the same MibR. In general, it is necessary to take the victory here and go to Faze Clan on the next stage. Traditionally, like many, they have already shat themselves everywhere at the quals on the quals on Blast. I don't know what the problem is there, tyr 3 dominance or PC shit.
Legends of the Brasil scene delight their many fans by getting out of the group. The guys have played 6 matches!, it is necessary to try, because it is necessary to fall in the bottom net, to reach the final of the bottom and lose, and to take everything in the last chance net. That's cool, Praxtis. Surprisingly, probably the defeat of Muvistar (they skipped the group on Vaseline). Of the high-profile victories, nothing. Nip got shut out in salad, well, who didn't shut them out. Wins over GL and Greyhound, yeah, come on.
In the end, we have almost nothing in Fury's favour. Even the history of the meetings says as much. But the funny thing is that these old guys will sit down and fuck up now, just like Mibre fucked up in the group stage at the very start, and then they'll slip into an embarrassing salad, but that will be later, but right now Furia win for a modest 2.45
Bookmakers & Statistics
According to leading bookmakers predictions, the team MOUZ are the favorite with average odds 1.483 at the moment. Respectively, bookmakers consider FURIA to be the outsider of the match with odds on a victory in the sum of about 4.268.
Team statistics in recent matches
Last Matches | MOUZ | FURIA |
5 matches (wins) | 3 | 4 |
10 matches (wins) | 7 | 6 |
It will also be necessary to mention the history of face-to-face meetings between the opponents. The teams played 6 matches with each other before. In these matches MOUZ won 5 times, FURIA active consisits of 1 wins.