Match Prediction: Team Liquid - Nouns | CS2 (CS:GO)
BLAST Premier: Spring American Showdown 2023Team Liquid and Nouns will meet in the quarterfinals of the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown 2023 Americas to play out a ticket to the next round and earn the right to play the winner of the paiN Gaming - MIBR match.
I believe that even with all their problems Team Liquid will manage to show their real level of play, at least judging by their first opponent.
In turn, about Nouns I would not dare to judge, because the team is constantly boiling in their region, occasionally showing glimpses of something conscious. Even here, however, the North Americans have their failures, including the recent stretch.
So here I would look out for a logical defeat from Team Liquid. No matter how bad things go for the Liquid, in the current realities, the guys should run over such an opponent and move on.
Team Liquid's form
The fourth team in the world ranking managed to reach the semi-finals of IEM Katowice 2023, where, however, almost without a chance blew away G2 Esports and went home.
Next up, the North American squad flew to ESL Pro League Season 17, where they had major problems making it to the playoffs, managing to lose to the Chinese from Rare Atom already on the first game day.
However, Team Liquid were quickly put in their place in the playoffs as the team managed to lose there to paiN Gaming. All in all, things are terrible for the Liquid, and it's hard to say what needs fixing if they're not to leave their region.
Team Liquid's latest results:
- A 2-0 win over ATK.
- A 0-2 loss to Team Spirit.
- Defeated Rare Atom 2-0.
- Beat Astralis 2-0.
- 0-2 defeat by paiN Gaming.
Team Liquid's top cards:
- Mirage - 62% wins.
- Overpass - 62% wins.
It should be remembered that the North American team stopped playing the Vertigo card.
Form Nouns
The 42nd ranked team in the world managed to qualify for IEM Dallas 2023, although no one was their opponent in those qualifiers. The North American squad went on to win the Ace North American Masters Spring 2023, which got them to BLAST.
At the same time, Nouns tried their luck in the ESL Challenger League Season 44 North America playoffs, where they failed to show anything, finishing in 5th-6th place after losses to MIBR and Strife.
From the latter, the team has been to CCT North America Series 4, where they were limited to reaching the grand final and another loss to the Brazilians of MIBR.
Recent Nouns results:
- A 2-0 win over TeamOne.
- Beat EG White 2-0.
- 0-2 defeat to MIBR.
- 0-2 defeat at the hands of Strife.
- 0-2 defeat at the hands of MIBR.
Best Nouns cards:
- Mirage - 75% wins.
- Anubis - 75% wins.
- Inferno - 70% wins.
- Overpass - 69% wins.
- Nuke - 50% wins.
- Ancient - 50% wins.
Interestingly, the Nouns team is able to play seven cards at once.
Team Liquid - Nouns encounter statistics
Last season the teams met once - in the closed qualification for IEM Dallas 2022 Team Liquid won (2-0).
Team Liquid vs Nouns
It's difficult to watch intrigue in a match of this format. It's understandable that Team Liquid is not in great shape, but have you seen the Nouns? Exactly, there is nothing interesting, although even at their level, the team is steadily losing to someone of MIBR level.
So here "liquid" will have their hands free, and we should expect something similar, as against ATK in the ESL Pro League Season 17. I won't say anything about the cards, as Nouns play everywhere and adjust more to the opponent. However, everything leads to an easy win for the favourite.
So in this case, I would recommend betting on Team Liquid to win 2-0.
Bookmakers & Statistics
According to leading bookmakers predictions, the team Team Liquid are the favorite with average odds 1.058 at the moment. Respectively, bookmakers consider Nouns to be the outsider of the match with odds on a victory in the sum of about 7.936.
How the teams played in the last matches
Last Matches | Team Liquid | Nouns |
5 matches (wins) | 3 | 3 |
10 matches (wins) | 6 | 8 |
Also it makes sense to remember the statistics of the matches between the teams. The competitors have held 0 matches. In these battles Team Liquid got 0 victories while Nouns managed to take 0 matches.