Prediction on match CS2 Cloud9 - Copenhagen Flames

Cloud9 and Copenhagen Flames will play in the quarter-finals of the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown 2023 Europe. I don't think the Danish squad will have a real fighting chance, as Cloud9 have improved markedly over the last month.

Moreover, although the tournament is online, the rules of the game are not in favour of Copenhagen Flames, if you know what I mean. In general, the Danes don't have many chances to prove themselves, and they parted with regali and took farlig for some reason.

As for Cloud9, the guys recently reached the finals of ESL Pro League Season 17. Yes, there they were knocked out without a chance, but in part the team itself could not cope with the pressure and gave the game away.

Nevertheless, here I would believe in a resounding victory for the Cloud9 team, as Copenhagen Flame have chances against anyone, even the Chinese.

Cloud9's form

The world number ten team won Group A in ESL Pro League Season 17, where they picked up three wins over Evil Geniuses, G2 Esports and Outsiders, heading into the quarter-finals.

As for play-off appearances, the Russian team managed to beat MOUZ and ENCE. However, in the final, Cloud9 lacked confidence as the boys gave up a dozen rounds to FaZe Clan and were restricted to one card only.

At the same time, Cloud9 won the RES Eastern European Masters Spring 2023, where not without problems, but still won their ticket to the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown 2023 Europe.

The latest Cloud9 results:

• A 2-0 win over Bad News Eagles.
• 2-0 win over VOYVODA.
• Beat MOUZ 2-1.
• Beat ENCE 2-1.
• Defeat by FaZe Clan 1-3.

Top cards from Cloud9:

• Vertigo - 100% wins.
• Mirage - 78% wins.
• Overpass - 67% wins.

It should be remembered that the Russian team continue to give up the Nuke card.

Copenhagen Flames uniforms

The 44th ranked team in the world once again failed in the closed qualification, this time for ESL Challenger Melbourne 2023. However, the Danes went on to reach the final of the Elisa Invitational Winter 2023, where they lost to GamerLegion.

However, Copenhagen Flames continued to show an unstable game, with which they managed to drop out of CCT North Europe Series 4 and BetBoom Playlist Urbanistic 2023 and CCT West Europe Series 2.

From the latter, the Danish squad became champions of the Pelaajat Nordic Masters Spring 2023 qualifying event, although Copenhagen Flames consistently had difficulties there as well.

Copenhagen Flames' latest results:

• A 5-16 defeat to ECSTATIC.
• A 16-9 win over Prosapia.
• 2-1 win over Sprout.
• 2-1 win over ECSTATIC.
• 1-2 defeat to LDLC.

Copenhagen Flames top cards:

• Overpass - 70% wins.
• Ancient - 64% wins.
• Anubis - 50% wins.

In turn, the Danish team has not played Mirage for a long time.

Cloud9 - Copenhagen Flames encounter statistics

The teams have not met before.

Forecast for the match Cloud9 - Copenhagen Flames

It is logical that we should be guided by the motivation of the favorite. However, Cloud9 never managed to qualify for the World Finals, so this championship is significant for the team.

On the other hand, I wouldn't expect much from the Danish side. First of all, Copenhagen Flames are always failing in such tournaments. Secondly, we have all seen the real level of the team when it went 0-3 in the qualifiers for the RMR tournament.

As far as maps are concerned, this is as uncomfortable as possible for the Clouds, but even in this format Copenhagen Flames will have little chance. So in this case I would recommend betting on Cloud9 to win 2-0.