Match Prediction: FaZe Clan - NaVi | CS2 (CS:GO)
IEM Cologne 2023Welcome to EGamersWorld.
Big CSGO continues with the matches of IEM Cologne 2023. The final group stage of the biggest summer championship is nearing.
There are 10 teams left in the race for play-offs, but four of them have already secured their coveted slots in the main stage. As for the remaining six, they will play for 2 spots in the play-offs of the tournament. NaVi and FaZe Clan are among them.
The teams will play face-to-face matches in the lower grid of Group B. The winner will retain a chance for the IEM Cologne 2023 play-offs and will face the winner of MOUZ - Astralis in the next series. The loser leaves the championship.
We try to find out which of these teams will be stronger and will continue their performance at IEM Cologne 2023, and who should say goodbye to the German tournament.
Go ahead.
FaZe Form
We open the match analysis with the analysis of FaZe Clan's form. In this match of The International the international team will play in the status of a favourite.
Bookmakers are on the side of FaZe. The odds for their victory are at 1.6.
In principle, it is easy to believe in the pre-match state of affairs. Still, FaZe are on the 3rd line of the world ranking for a reason.
One of the most stable teams of the season has quite an extensive record in the first half of the year. However, it mainly consists of "about" top results.
Among the main achievements - getting into the top three at BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2023 and winning at ESL Pro League Season 17. Also this year FaZe got the award for the 4th season of Intel Grad Slam, enriched by $1,000,000.
Speaking of award tournaments, there was less luck here. Top 12 at IEM Rio 2023, and Top 4 at IEM Dallas 2023. At the only Major e in the season FaZe did not cope with the tension, but made it to TOP-8.
Before the Long Conference IEM Cologne 2023 they attended two tournaments of BLAST series: Spring Final 2023 and Fall Groups 2023. At the Finals they were ranked Top 6, and at the Fall Groups 2023 they were in the top three, earning themselves a slot at the Autumn Finals.
- FaZe Clan line-up: karrigan, rain, Twistzz, ropz, broky .
Despite the ubiquitous Reshuffle and rather "average" results for the year, FaZe didn't change the main roster. However, there were some substitutions: FaZe presented a new coach, who became the legendary Pole NEO. On his post he replaced the legendary RobbaN and it will obviously affect the FaZe's gameplay in the IEM Cologne 2023.
In the first game of IEM Cologne 2023 FaZe under the new coach met NiP. A 14-16 loss to Mirage didn't stop NiP from taking on Overpass (16-5) and Nuke (16-7).
In the next match FaZe faced G2 Esports. "Samurai" rolled FaZe 2-0 without much chance (16-4 Inferno and 16-12 Ancient).
FaZe Clan mappool
The best map FaZe - Mirage. They played 12 matches and won 9 of them.
Then there were Overpass with 8 matches and 5 wins. Nuke (7 matches, 4 wins), Inferno (9 matches, 5 wins). Worse is Ancient with 3 wins in 6 matches, and worst of all was Anubis. His FaZe was picked 7 times, but played with a winrate of 42%.
Not playing on Vertigo.
NaVi's form
We continue the match analysis with the analysis of NaVi game form. In this match the Ukrainian club will play as an outsider.
Bookmakers do not believe in the success of the renewed NaVi. The odds for victory are at around 2.4.
Natus Vincere are in the position of catching up for a reason. The sixteenth team of the world ranking has only recently changed the roster and is now in the process of adaptation. And before that there were problems, although the season is not called a failure.
At the end of the season, while still in the previous squad, held a series of good tournaments. They placed high in almost every one.
They started with a top 6 at BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2023. Then top-3 at IEM Katowice 2023 and a similar result at ESL Pro League Season 17.
NaVi took BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR A without any problems and qualified for the Major in Paris. Before the only Major of the season, Natus Vincere took the top 4 at the IEM Masters Rio 2023.
The Paris tournament turned out to be a failure for NaVi. Top-11 is hardly a decent result for a team of Natus Vincere's status.
- NaVi roster: s1mple, b1t, Aleksib, jL, iM.
Before the Long Conner IEM Cologne NaVi made a global Reshuffle, translating the roster into English. In addition to electroNic, Perfecto and npl who left, jL with Apeks, iM with GamerLegion and Aleksib, who previously played for Ninjas in Pyjamas, joined the team.
With the new lineup, NaVi made their debut at BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2023. "Born to Win" managed to earn a place in the autumn finals by finishing in the top 4-6.
At IEM Cologne 2023 Natus Vincere played two matches. First, they lost to MOUZ with a score of 0-2, and then defeated OG in Bo3.
NaVi Mappool
NaVi's best map in 3 months is Inferno. The team played there 5 times with a winrate of 60 per cent.
On Mirage, Ancient. Nuker, Overpass and Anubis NaVi has 50% wins. On Ancient and Nuke the team played 4 matches each, on the others - 2.
Vertigo is not playing.
History of head-to-head meetings
Earlier the teams played each other on European RMR. Then NaVi won, and at the Major e - FaZe Clan.
Predicted result of the match NaVi - FaZe Clan
I would not expect an equal fight in this match. NaVi still look raw and obviously do not reach FaZe Clan in terms of stability, although FaZe themselves are not the benchmark now.
In general, FaZe will win here.
The result: victory of FaZe.
Bookmakers & Statistics
According to leading bookmakers predictions, the team NaVi are the favorite with average odds 2.006 at the moment. Respectively, bookmakers consider FaZe Clan to be the outsider of the match with odds on a victory in the sum of about 2.476.
Team statistics in recent matches
Last Matches | FaZe Clan | NaVi |
5 matches (wins) | 3 | 3 |
10 matches (wins) | 6 | 5 |
It will also be necessary to mention the history of face-to-face meetings between the opponents. The competitors have held 41 matches. In these battles FaZe Clan got 14 victories while NaVi managed to take 27 matches.