Match Prediction: FaZe - fnatic | CS2 (CS:GO)
IEM Sydney 2018The teams face often enough as they visit the major part of large championships and are in the European region, due to which meet in the qualifiers too. Over the last five matches, the victory was achieved twice by the Swedish team, FaZe Clan’s triumph was mentioned only once and the rosters made a draw two times.
At the moment, Fnatic is one of the best teams on the modern professional stage and hold the third place in the world rate by HLTV.org. In 2018, the guys have already prevailed at Intel Extreme Masters XII - World Championship and World Electronic Sports Games 2017 and held the third place at DreamHack Masters Marseille 2018. The guys prefer to play on de_mirage and de_cobblestone most of all - they played 22 times there, the least number of matches was played on de_nuke and de_dust2 - only once. The Swedish team beat Chiefs ESC and G2 eSports, however, was defeated by Astralis in this championship.
The team FaZe Clan also enters the top five of the best teams on the modern professional stage, holding the fourth place by HLTV.org. During this year, the European didn’t win a cup, however, held the second place twice. This happened at ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018 and Intel Extreme Masters XII - World Championship. Also, the team’s results include the third-fourth place at StarLadder & i-League StarSeries Season 4, V4 Future Sports Festival - Budapest 2018 and the qualifiers to ESL Pro League Season 7 in the European division, which allowed GuardiaN and the company to receive a trip to the LAN final.
At the moment, the team plays with Richard «Xizt» Landström, who temporarily replaces Olof «olofmeister» Kajbjer, who has left the main CS:GO roster for an undetermined term. After Olof’s withdrawal, the team prefers playing on de_mirage and de_overpass but doesn’t afraid to play on de_cache, de_inferno and de_train.
At Intel Extreme Masters XIII - Sydney 2018, FaZe Clan beat ORDER, Cloud9 and Grayhound but lost to Renegades, due to which didn’t earn a slot in the semi-final.
Bookmakers consider the team FaZe Clan to be a controversial favorite of the match, offering odds that are equal to 1.6 for their victory. In turn, Fnatic’s triumph is evaluated as 2.1.
But we tend to the victory of JW and the company, relying on the statistics and the replacement in the ranks of FaZe Clan. It’s not worth to forget that each of the teams enters the top five on the modern professional stage and can prove itself from a better side.