Match Prediction: Gambit Esports - FaZe Clan | CS2 (CS:GO)

Forecast for the quarterfinals with FaZe Clan and Gambit Esports at IEM Cologne 2021. The faces are very cool at this event, Gambits are playing great, despite the atmosphere of the LAN tournament.

FaZe Clan play from the Play-in stage, where they managed to defeat Evil Geniuses and Complexity. In the group stage, Feyza stumbled against Astralis, and in the lower bracket they got together and beat Team Spirit, Vitality and Heroic, which allowed them to get into the quarterfinals.

There was a lot of news that FaZe Clan played on all maps of the tournament map pool as part of IEM Cologne 2021, but the winrate on some of them leaves much to be desired. In general, there are problems with Dust 2, Nuke, Overpass, but they continue to show themselves coolly on Mirage and, unexpectedly, on Vertigo.

FaZe Clan results at IEM Cologne 2021

- Defeated Evil Geniuses on Mirage with a score of 16:12
- Defeated Complexity with a score of 2: 0
- Lost against Astralis with a score of 0: 2
- Defeated Team Spirit with a score of 2: 1
- Defeated Vitality with a score of 2: 0
- Defeated Heroic with a score of 2: 1

FaZe Clan's card statistics

• Mirage: defeated Evil Geniuses with a score of 16:12
• Mirage: defeated Vitality with a score of 16:11
• Mirage: defeated Heroic with a score of 16:10

• Dust 2: defeated Complexity with a score of 16:13
• Dust 2: lost to Astralis with a score of 13:16
• Dust 2: defeated Vitality with a score of 16:14

• Nuke: defeated Complexity with a score of 16: 6
• Nuke: lost to Astralis with a score of 22:25
• Nuke: lost to Heroic with a score of 11:16 (!!!)
  
  
• Overpass: lost to Team Spirit with a score of 11:16

• Inferno: defeated Team Spirit with a score of 16:13

• Vertigo: defeated Team Spirit with a score of 16:10

• Ancient: defeated Heroic with a score of 16:10

Gambit Esports results at IEM Cologne 2021

- Defeated mousesports with a score of 2: 1
- Defeated NiP with a score of 2: 1
- Lost against G2 Esports with a score of 1: 2

Gambit Esports card statistics

• Inferno: lost against mousesports with a score of 14:16
• Inferno: defeated NiP with a score of 16: 5
• Inferno: lost against G2 Esports with a score of 14:16

• Ancient: lost against NiP with a score of 10:16

• Vertigo: defeated mousesports with a score of 16: 3
• Vertigo: beat G2 Esports with a score of 16:10

• Mirage: defeated mousesports with a score of 16:12
• Mirage: lost against G2 Esports with a score of 13:16 (!!!)

• Dust 2: defeated NiP with a score of 16: 8

Prediction: Gambit Esports vs. FaZe Clan in IEM Cologne 2021 Quarterfinals

FaZe Clan are confident in their Mirage, they back it up with the results on this map, because they have never lost there. They try to ban: Vertigo and Overpass, and these are some of the strongest cards for Gambit Esports.

Gambit Esports came to this tournament without Ancient and Nuke, but with prepared ones: Vertigo, Inferno, Mirage. I noticed a tendency that Gambit are constantly losing on the first map and then, as a catch-up, they took cards in games against mousesports and Ninjas in Pajamas. I would not say that Gambit has problems with Inferno, since there were quite close accounts, they were a little unlucky, I would be more afraid of Mirage, since this is a very cool card from FaZe Clan, but you have to spend bans on conditional Nuke/Ancient, which Gambits do not play.

To be honest, according to the map pool, it seems to me that it is more comfortable to play FaZe Clan. Suppose that we find ourselves in the ban: Ancient/Nuke/Vertigo/Overpass, then it remains: Mirage, Inferno, Dust 2, quite good cards for both teams. Purely according to statistics, this is the best option, but Gambits should come up with something at the map-veto stage if they want to go to the semifinals.

Bookmakers give odds of 1.38 for Gambit Esports and 3.15 for FaZe Clan. I think such quotes are too high, most likely, we will see all three cards, the coefficient for TB is 2.5 - 1.98, and I will believe in it. A logical bet, in my understanding, on the victory of FaZe Clan, they have a better map situation, they have experienced LAN players, compared to Gambit Esports, the CIS-team's individual is many times stronger, but here something else will be more influenced.

Forecast: TB 2.5 for cards at 1.98; with the risk of winning FaZe Clan - coefficient 3.15

Gambit will have to start the playoffs stage with the quarterfinals, which could give the team additional acceleration. The Fays were able to beat strong teams and were here for a reason.

Faze

Olof immediately entered the game and joined the team, which allows the team to play on equal terms with Kerrgan's very weak individual play, and Twists' stability is also worth noting. The team has a very, very weak attack, it seems that the captain does not understand what is happening, it is very strange to see it when you have such an experienced player on this slot.

Recently, analyst Faze spoke about the preparation for Gambit: “So, it is not difficult to prepare for Gambit. It's difficult to play against them)))) They have a good, strong structure and a sense of the round, a lot of fakes for the attack and clear calls for defense. They know very well what, why and when they play, and they do not get lost in their rounds, despite the wide pool of strategies. Even if you understand what is going on with your opponent, it is unrealistically difficult to resist. I would compare the game of Gambit with the period of Astralis domination. Both in quality and structure. True, Gambit plays a little more fun and boldly. I would like to note that FaZe has not yet played against Gambit, there will be the first match on Friday, but with mousesports I twice had the experience of preparing for the guys from the CIS. ”,

Gambit

“Online and one tournament team” proves its level of play to everyone. In this tournament, they played all their games 2-1. If the first two victories were given to them relatively easily, then the match with G2, which they lost, was definitely worth watching. On the first map there was a little shortage before the comeback and everything was decided by micro-moments and timings, the second Gambit was confidently closed, but on Inferno there was a real drama. The French were ahead of the whole match, and after the changeover, Gambit was confidently closing the gap, when the score was 15-14, Shiro remained 1 on 1 s Nico and the last time defused the bomb in the last second, one moment was not enough to transfer the map to overtime, where Gambit should no longer be were to let go of the opponent.

It is not so important to analyze the map pool in detail in this match, it is worth mentioning that Gambit has the best Vertigo at the moment, but the Fays do not play it.

Outcome

Gambit is stronger in all aspects of the game, they have strong defense, which will be a huge problem for Faze. Faze has a raw Inferno and a weak Overpass, but Enshent, for information, they trained for a long time at the bootcamp and spent a lot of time on it. It is not worth inventing something, maybe on one map of Feyza they will get through and be able to win on an individual performance, but Gambit is not the team against which this will be enough, especially against the background of their constant games against Navi, where they had to shoot against the best shooters at the given moment.

Gambit Esports are listed as the favorites of the match in the majority of bookmakers and odds on them are equal to 1.578. FaZe Clan, in turn, are the outsiders of the match. Odds on their victory are about 3.221.

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