Match Prediction: NRG - G2 Esports | CS2 (CS:GO)
IEM Sydney 2018The rosters didn’t meet about six months as G2 eSports was one of the best teams in the world and visited only premium tournaments and NRG eSports was not able to find its play and always fought in the qualifiers to some championships in North America.
In January, G2 eSports placed fourth in the rate of the best teams in the world by HLTV.org, however, was unlucky to achieve victory at the Major tournaments, so they decided to exclude a captain of the roster in the face of Richard «shox» Papillon. Oscar «mixwell» Cañellas took his place, however, the team’s results became worse and the team holds the 11th place in the world rate at the moment.
This year, the team held the 5th-8th place at ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018 and StarLadder & i-League StarSeries Season 4 but was not able to reach the place higher than the 9th one in the tournaments in Intel Extreme Masters XII - World Championship, DreamHack Masters Marseille 2018 and ESL Pro League Season 7 - Europe series after the replacement.
The guys managed to beat MVP PK with a score 16:5 in this tournament, however, when they faced a decent opponent in the face of Fnatic, they lost with a score 2:1.
In its turn, NRG eSports improved their level of the game a lot and 2018, for sure, can be called successful for the roster - over the past four months, the guys won iBUYPOWER Invitational - Spring 2018 and the qualifiers to Intel Extreme Masters XIII - Sydney, StarSeries & i-League CS:GO Season 5 and Esports Championship Series Season 5. Also, the roster has held the second place in the North American division of ESL Pro League Season 7, which will allow them to compete in the LAN final in Dallas.
In this championship, the North American team lost to Astralis with a score 19:16 in a bo1 match, after which left no chances to the team B.O.O.T-dream[S]cape, having beaten the last ones with a score 2:0.
Map picks are unknown at the moment because the teams will start picking appropriate maps before the beginning of the match.
Bookmaker companies, in general, are not able to determine the favorite of the match and offer very different odds, for example, EGB, GGbet and betway relate G2 eSports to the favorites of the confrontation but lootbet, bet365, and pinnacle believe in the victory of the North American team instead.
We also think that the teams have been playing equally in the recent time and the match will be tense and will finish with a score 2:1. We tend to the guys from NRG eSports as they were on the rise during the last weeks and the French started playing significantly worse.