Match Prediction: Heroic - Sprout | CS2 (CS:GO)
IEM Cologne 2022 Play-InHeroic and Sprout will meet at IEM Cologne 2022 Play-In. I don't think that the Danish team will have problems reaching the group stage of the championship, and Sprout is not the team that can surprise the inveterate favorite.
Of course, you can talk about the terrible form of cadiaN and the recent replacement, but Sprout is so sad in key matches that I would rather expect a quick relegation of the team than some kind of sensation.
And the Danish team certainly does not intend to create problems for itself out of the blue. And if we take into account the statistics, then Heroic performs consistently in such matches, having no problems with representatives of the TIER-2 scene.
Form Heroic
The ninth team in the world ranking a month ago became the winner of the Pinnacle Cup Championship 2022, where they showed not the most confident game, if you look at the content.
But the result is the result, since the Danish team coped with its task, even though they managed to lose to fnatic in BO1 on the first game day.
Heroic also made a lineup change by signing jabbi from Copenhagen Flames. Personally, I don't think he's cool enough to crown Heroic, but, obviously, in the structure, the young one will not fall out and will show a couple of good matches in the championship.
Heroic's latest results:
- Victory over MIBR with a score of 2:0.
- 2-0 victory over fnatic.
- Victory over Finest with a score of 2:1.
- Victory over BIG with a score of 2:0.
- Victory over Astralis with a score of 2:0.
Best Heroic Maps:
- Overpass - 88% of wins.
- Inferno - 86% of wins.
- Mirage - 62% of wins.
- Vertigo - 50% of wins.
I believe that the Danish team will continue to refuse the Dust 2 map.
Sprout shape
The 32nd team of the world ranking just recently failed at the ESL Pro League Season 16 Conference and ESL Challenger League Season 41 Europe, having gained only a couple of victories.
Well, over the weekend, the Danish-German team managed to visit the ESL Challenger Valencia 2022 at DreamHack, where, to my surprise, they made it to the semi-finals.
True, if you look at the fact, then Sprout beat the Brazilians from FURIA and 00NATION, but could not show anything against the background of Outsiders and Movistar Riders. This is the whole point of a team that does not really succeed in important matches.
Latest Sprout results:
- Defeated by SAW with a score of 1:2.
- Victory over FURIA with a score of 16:10.
- Lost to the Outsiders with a score of 8:16.
- Victory over 00NATION with a score of 2:0.
- Defeated by Movistar Riders with a score of 0:2.
Best Sprout cards:
- Inferno - 83% of wins.
- Vertigo - 57% of wins.
- Overpass - 57% of wins.
- Nuke - 50% win rate.
- Ancient - 50% win rate.
At the same time, the Danish-German team has recently abandoned the Mirage card.
Heroic vs Sprout match statistics
The teams have not met before.
Heroic vs Sprout Prediction
I don't know what Sprout needs to come up with in order to cause problems for the opponent. In fact, in Valencia, I saw a complete lack of ideas against structured opponents.
In turn, Heroic did not make it worse by replacing, but, in my opinion, did not become stronger. Yes, jabbi was good in the Copenhagen Flames system, but where Xizt will put him is unknown.
However, I have no reason to believe that the Danish team will experience problems in this particular match. After all, these guys will come to Cologne with the pretensions to reach the playoffs. Well, there is absolutely nothing to say about Sprout, since these are completely uninteresting passengers.
Therefore, here I would recommend betting on the victory of the Heroic team with Handicap in rounds (-3.5).
Bookmakers & Statistics
According to leading bookmakers predictions, the team Heroic are the favorite with average odds 1.16 at the moment. Respectively, bookmakers consider Sprout to be the outsider of the match with odds on a victory in the sum of about 6.157.
How the teams played in the last matches
Last Matches | Heroic | Sprout |
5 matches (wins) | 5 | 0 |
10 matches (wins) | 7 | 5 |
Also it makes sense to remember the statistics of the matches between the teams. The competitors have held 9 matches. In these battles Heroic got 8 victories while Sprout managed to take 1 matches.