Match Prediction: Vitality - Heroic | CS2 (CS:GO)
IEM Brazil Rio 2023Vitality and Heroic will meet in the IEM Rio 2023 Grand Final to claim the championship title. Objectively, both teams bounced back in their semi-finals and then were shut out by morale.
Such a story happened to Vitality on the Vertigo card, which ended with a sensational comeback. On Overpass, the team had already crushed Cloud9, which was predictable.
The same situation happened with Heroic, who went to Overpass, but took advantage of the situation and closed the map to go to Ancient.
All in all, The International situation is heresy, but here I think the Danes will have a much tougher time. Therefore, here I would lean on the victory of the Vitality team, which right now deserves to win the championship more.
Vitality's form
The fifth ranked team in the world played well at the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 Europe RMR B, where they only lost to 9INE. However, Vitality went on to defeat G2 Esports and Monte, making their way into the "legends" of the majors.
Nevertheless, at the Long Converge of the group stage of IEM Rio 2023, the Danish-French team managed to lose to OG but then beat MIBR, FaZe Clan and OG to reach the play-offs.
Even here, the team got two victories over BIG and Cloud9 to reach the grand final. And if history repeats itself, Vitality will definitely Ledge the opponent in level of motivation.
Vitality's latest results:
- A 2-0 win over MIBR.
- Victory over FaZe Clan with a score of 2-0.
- Beat OG 2-1.
- Beat BIG 2-0.
- Defeated Cloud9 by a score of 2-1.
Vitality's best scores:
- Nuke - 89% wins.
- Anubis - 83% wins.
- Vertigo - 75% wins.
- Inferno - 60% wins.
- Overpass - 56% wins.
- Mirage - 56% wins.
It is worth recalling that the Danish-French team has not appeared on the Ancient map for a long time.
Heroic form
The third team of the world ranking without much trouble went through the grid on BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 Europe RMR B, where they got confident victories over 500, Aurora Gaming and Monte.
As for the performance in the group stage of IEM Rio 2023, here Heroic managed to lose to BIG, but with victories over 9INE, TheMongolz and Ninjas in Pyjamas has guaranteed participation in the play-offs.
Here the Danish squad suffered two victories over FURIA and NAVI, which in my mind seems to be beyond logic. In other words, Heroic didn't play a place in the finals, which is glaringly obvious on cursory inspection.
Heroic's latest results:
- A 1-2 defeat to BIG.
- Victory over TheMongolz with a score of 2-1.
- Victory over Ninjas in Pyjamas 2-0.
- Victory over FURIA by a score of 2-1.
- Defeated Natus Vincere 2-0.
Top scorers of Heroic:
- Mirage - 78% wins.
- Overpass - 78% wins.
- Inferno - 77% wins.
- Ancient - 67% wins.
- Vertigo - 60% wins.
- Nuke - 50% wins.
In turn, the Danish team continues to deny Anubis.
Vitality - Heroic encounter statistics
Within the current season, the teams have played two meetings:
- Vitality's 2-1 victory in the BLAST Premier Spring Groups 2023.
- A 2-0 win for Heroic at IEM Katowice 2023.
Interestingly, the teams played on five different maps, excluding Ancient and Anubis.
Vitality - Heroic match prediction
There's no point in making any pre-match predictions on the cards if the sensation happens time after time. And both semifinals were marked by some strong-willed rounds, which definitely will not be repeated.
On the other hand, Vitality showed a better level of play in this championship than ever before. Well, the Danish team just go crazy and don't blush, but sooner or later it will pass.
So in this case, I'd recommend betting on Vitality to win.
Bookmakers & Statistics
Vitality are listed as the favorites of the match in the majority of bookmakers and odds on them are equal to 1.788. Heroic, in turn, are the outsiders of the match. Odds on their victory are about 2.31.
What the team performance statistics say
Last Matches | Vitality | Heroic |
5 matches (wins) | 5 | 4 |
10 matches (wins) | 8 | 8 |
It will also be necessary to mention the history of face-to-face meetings between the opponents. The competitors have held 19 matches. In these matches Vitality won 9 times, Heroic active consisits of 10 wins.