Match Prediction: Astralis - Team Liquid | CS2 (CS:GO)

The last time when the collectives met happened approximately two months ago at the Grand final of FACEIT Major 2018 and then the guys from Astralis turned out to be stronger winning over their opponents by the score of 2:0.

Team Liquid have very stable results and in the autumn the guys managed to take the 3-4 positions at FACEIT Major: London 2018 and EPICENTER 2018 and the second place at  ESL One: New York 2018, but they are getting away from their best shape. At the current championship the roster won over Luminosity and Mousesports at the group stage, but lost against Fnatic, providing themselves with getting to the playoff only from the second position. At the playoff NAF and the team defeated Team LDLC.com and FaZe Clan.

Astralis are in a normal shape and are picking up steam match by match. In the autumn  they managed to win FACEIT Major: London 2018 and BLAST Pro Series: Istanbul 2018, and also to take the second place at DreamHack Masters Stockholm 2018 and to get the third position at BLAST Pro Series: Copenhagen 2018. At IEM Chicago 2018, the roster tokk the second place in the group, losing in the final of the GSL bracket against the guys from FaZe Clan. At the playoff, Glave and the team defeated Mousesports and Fnatic.

Bookmakers think that Astralis are the favourites of the battle and set the coefficient of the win equal to 1.45, while the triumph of Team Liquid is evaluated as 2.75. We suppose that the team are pretty equal but the Danish players may be bad opponents for “Liquids”. That’s why, paying attention to the previous meetings, we will lean towards the guys from Astralis.

Also you can take into account markets “exact score 3:1 for Astralis” with the coefficient of  3.75 and “handicap for a round +4.5 for Team Liquid on their picked map” with the coefficient of 1.8.