Match Prediction: Vitality - OG | CS2 (CS:GO)

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We continue to watch the biggest and one of the most prestigious tournaments of this summer. The group stage is heating up at IEM Cologne 2023.

Let's talk about Basket B, where a lot of top Counter-Strike a in the first round of matches awaits us. Vitality's match against OG is one of them.

The main reason to watch this match is the inclusion of Vitality. For the Frenchmen, this is a stunnet debut match in the German event.

We try to understand whether Vitality debut will be successful and whether OG will be able to oppose something to the "bees".

Let's go.

Vitality Form

Let's open the match with an analysis of Team Vitality's form. In this match the French play the first number one.

Bookmakers confirm the advantage of Vitality. The odds for their victory are at around 1.15.

It is easy to believe in Vitality's advantage. After all, they are ranked number 2 in the world ranking for a reason and are playing at the tournament as one of the contenders for the Champions Cup.

The first half of the 2023 season has been a real treat for Vitality. It started with a win at the Blast Premier Spring Groups and Top 6 at the top IEM Katowice 2023 and ESL Pro League Season 4. Next was Top 3 at European RMR B and triumph at the most domestic Major e - BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023. After winning the Paris Major e Vitality took the top 2 at the spring finals of BLAST, Ledge and Heroic in the grand finals.

The last tournament before IEM Katowice was BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2023. There Vitality showed a worse result than expected, with the top 6 in the end.

• Vitality lineup: apEX, ZywOo, Magisk, Spinx, flameZ .

After the triumphant Paris Major a Vitality said goodbye to Dupreeh, and flameZ took his place. The "newcomer" Vitality has already had time to adapt and looks good: the young Israeli has KDA 1.09 and this is the third result of the team. He, by the way, started his ascent on the big stage with OG.

Vitality mappool

The best Vitality map is Nuke. It has 4 matches and 4 wins.

Anubis (7 matches, 85% wins), Mirage (4 matches, 75% wins) are very good. In general, Vitality doesn't have any bad cards that they play. Vertigo - 71% wins in 7 matches, Inferno and Overpass - 3 wins in 5 matches.

Ancient is not played.

OG Form.

We continue the match analysis with the analysis of OG's form. In this match the team will play as an outsider.

The odds for OG victory are at around 5. Which, however, is not surprising.

OG is only on its way to growing as a team and returning to the top 20 of HLTV. IEM Cologne 2023 should be the starting point for that.

The 55th ranked team in the world doesn't boast any big wins. OG have played a lot of places during the season, but there are no results at all.

Among the most high-profile ones - 7th place on BLAST.tv European RMR A and passage to the Major tournament, but failure directly in Paris. At the actual Paris Major 2023 the club took TOP-22.

Among the A Crossovers, we can mention only Brazy Party. The commercial tournament ended for OG at the stage of TOP-4, which was the best result for the whole year.

Before IEM Cologne 2023, OG failed to qualify for the last chance at Gamers8, and finished in the top 12 at BLAST Premier: Fall 2023 Groups.

• OG lineup: nexa, F1KU, FASHR, k1to, regali .

The latest replacements in the form of FASHR, k1to and Regali joining the team a month ago are not paying off yet. The Frenchman and the German have ratings below 0.89 and 0.94 and this is the worst among the team, which, however, does not shine with bright personalities.

Despite the dismal statistics of the players in recent months, in the first match against 9INE OG looked good, although they failed to get the win. They lost to the Poles on Overpass with the score 17-19.

They got out of Play-In thanks to a win over CoL in the second round. We beat them cleanly, 2-0.

OG Mapple.

The only map OG has won in the last 3 months is Mirage. They won against BIG, but had 2 losses later.

They tried to make something up on Inferno and Ancient, but they lost twice there, and then there was Overpass and also a loss.

History of head-to-head meetings

The last time the teams played each other was at IEM Rio 2023. Vitality won then.

Predicted result of the match OG - Vitality

The only thing that speaks in favour of OG in this match is the momentum of IEM Cologne 2023. They are getting better, but Vitality is clearly not the level of 9INE and even more so Complexity. The French should outplay their vis-a-vis with the score 2-0.

The result: 2-0 in favour of Vitality.