Match Prediction: Astralis - Heroic | Counter-Strike (CS2)
PGL Major Stockholm 2021 Legends StageAstralis and Heroic will meet in the third round of the PGL Major Stockholm 2021 Legends Stage. You know, after such a thing it is difficult to recover morally. And if after the game with NIP the Danes are not knocked out, then knocked down for sure. At the same time, Heroic seems to wake up, even managing to beat Vitality.
Astralis shape
The eighth team in the world rankings seems to intend to return to the pit from which it has already been selected at PGL Major Stockholm 2021. As it seemed after the game with FURIA, the Danes returned to themselves. However, the last meeting with the NIP showed that they knocked from below and the guys could fall even lower. Personally, I would not have been able to recover from 1:16, and even from a fundamental rival. Therefore, I do not count on Astralis in this match.
Recent Astralis results:
- Victory over GODSENT with a score of 2: 0.
- Victory over paiN with a score of 2: 0.
- Victory over Spirit with a score of 2: 0.
- Victory over FURIA with a score of 16:10.
- Defeat to NIP with a score of 1:16.
Best Astralis Cards:
- Nuke - 71% wins.
- Inferno - 67% wins.
- Ancient - 50% wins.
- Dust 2 - 50% wins.
At the same time, the Danes still do not play on the Mirage map. But at the same time, the team has difficulties with the Ancient and Vertigo cards.
Heroic form
The fifth team in the world ranking with grief overcame the first stage of PGL Major Stockholm 2021. At the same time, the Legends stage for the Danes began with two difficult matches, one of which ended in a pocket. Yet Heroic managed to close Vitality, once again showing weak play at a distance. Moreover, this problem has been dragging on since the start of the tournament, and the team has not done anything.
Recent Heroic results:
- Lost to Copenhagen Flames with a score of 1: 2.
- Lost to Entropiq with a score of 1: 2.
- Victory over Movistar Riders with a score of 2: 0.
- Defeat from NAVI with a score of 11:16.
- Victory over Vitality with a score of 16:12.
Best Heroic Cards:
- Inferno - 88% wins.
- Overpass - 78% wins.
- Nuke - 53% wins.
- Vertigo - 50% wins.
I think that the team will refuse Dust 2, which they traditionally do not play.
Meeting statistics Astralis - Heroic
During the current season, the teams held five meetings:
- Heroic's victory in DreamHack Masters Spring 2021 with a score of 2: 0.
- Heroic's victory in FLASHPOINT 3 with a score of 2: 0.
- Astralis win at IEM Cologne 2021 with a score of 2: 0.
- Heroic's victory in ESL Pro League Season 14 with a score of 2: 0.
- Astralis win at IEM Fall 2021 Europe with a score of 16:14.
At the last RMR tournament, teams played on Nuke.
Prediction for the match Astralis - Heroic
I have nothing more to add - it is almost impossible to recover from such an olive, no matter what champion you were in the past. Therefore, here I propose to bet on the victory of the Heroic team.
Heroic and Astralis meet exactly one month later.
The last meeting ended 16:14 in favor of the second on Nuke.
The heroic guys sweated but could not cope with Navi and gave the French a second pocket, winning 16:12. By and large, both were expected, the guys are more or less in shape.
Astralis tore apart three Brazilian teams and Spirit. But yesterday there was another porn episode with a score of 16: 1 in favor of the NPC.
This can be regarded as a call to the real form of the Danes when meeting with the TOP, although there is an opinion that this is a moral psychological outcome or even an idea of a drain.
I cannot hope for a team that plays at the Major 1:16.
Victory for Heroic, as a variant with a handicap of -2.5, for the odds of 1.45/1.65.
"Not for the fact that his son's father beat his son, that he played, but for the fact that he tried to win back."
Be sane, put it wisely.
Bookmakers & Statistics
Heroic are listed as the favorites of the match in the majority of bookmakers and odds on them are equal to 1.491. Astralis, in turn, are the outsiders of the match. Odds on their victory are about 2.631.
In the case of solidarity with the bookmaker’s position about the possible winner of the match, a bet at will be more preferable where odds 1.528 are given on Heroic victory. If you are confident that analysts provide a totally wrong prediction, you should risk and make a bet on Astralis success at - the team’s victory is evaluated with the high odds 2.742.