Match Prediction: Movistar Riders - sAw | CS2 (CS:GO)
ESL Pro League Season 17Movistar Riders and SAW will meet as part of the "Last Chance" bracket at ESL Pro League Season 17. The winner of this match will still fight for a place in the playoffs, while the loser will go to pack his bags and fly home.
To be honest, there is no clear favorite in this Iberian derby. However, in my understanding, the Portuguese team has a slightly better chance of winning, because they know their opponent very well and have excellent statistics.
Moreover, I don’t rate Movistar Riders at all in terms of a full-fledged team, because for half a year I haven’t seen any positive dynamics and attempts to fix anything.
In general, there is room for intrigue here, as the derby itself will be full of emotions. However, here I would look at the SAW victory, which for me personally has much more opportunities to continue the fight.
Movistar Riders Uniform
The 30th team in the world rankings had a terrible start to the new season, as they were eliminated from all open qualifiers, without even making it to the closed qualifiers for the RMR tournament.
Recently, Movistar Riders even managed to play in the CCT Central Europe Series Finals 1, where they very unexpectedly made it to the playoffs. But everything quickly improved there as well, as the Spanish team was defeated by Bad News Eagles and ENCE, taking fourth place.
As for the start in the group stage of ESL Pro League Season 17, here Movistar Riders managed to suffer defeats from Heroic and FURIA. However, once the stick still fired, because the Spaniards closed Complexity Gaming, but there are exactly the same pranksters.
Movistar Riders latest results:
- Lost to the Bad News Eagles with a score of 0:2.
- Lost to ENCE with a score of 1:2.
- Defeat from Heroic with a score of 0:2.
- Victory over Complexity Gaming with a score of 2:0.
- Defeat from FURIA with a score of 1:2.
The best maps of Movistar Riders:
- Anubis - 50% win rate.
It is worth noting that the Spanish team is still refusing the Vertigo card.
SAW shape
The 24th team of the world ranking managed to visit the semi-finals of CCT South Europe Series 2 and OMEN WGR Challenge 2023, qualifying for BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 Europe RMR along the way.
As for the start in the group stage of ESL Pro League Season 17, here SAW started with a humiliating defeat from MOUZ, where they showed no signs of life.
Further, the Portuguese team managed to close Imperial Esports, having obtained a rather strong-willed victory. And yet, the day before, the team did not look so bright again, because they did not come up with anything against BIG.
Latest SAW results:
- Victory over HEET with a score of 2:0.
- Victory over JANO with a score of 2:0.
- Defeated by MOUZ with a score of 0:2.
- Victory over Imperial Esports with a score of 2:1.
- Defeated by BIG with a score of 0:2.
Best SAW cards:
- Vertigo - 82% of wins.
- Nuke - 73% of wins.
- Inferno - 50% win rate.
- Anubis - 50% win rate.
- Ancient - 50% win rate.
In turn, the Portuguese team has traditionally abandoned the Mirage card.
Match statistics Movistar Riders — SAW
As part of the current season, the teams held one meeting - at the group stage of the OMEN WGR Challenge 2023, the victory went to SAW (16:5).
Prediction for the match Movistar Riders — SAW
Looking back, the Spanish team consistently fails in games against SAW. One point is important here, LAN is LAN, but the Portuguese have much more experience.
Moreover, Movistar Riders still fails structurally, and the team has not offered anything on the server for a long time. Moreover, the real ceiling of the Spaniards has long been reached, so I see no reason to believe in a whirlpool.
Therefore, in this case, I would recommend betting on the victory of the SAW team.
Bookmakers & Statistics
All bookmakers have agreed that Movistar Riders is the favorite. This can be noticed because odds on them are 1.735. This number in the favor of sAw amounts 4.198. Respectively, the last ones are the underdogs of the upcoming match.
Team statistics in recent matches
Last Matches | Movistar Riders | sAw |
5 matches (wins) | 1 | 3 |
10 matches (wins) | 5 | 5 |
We will also remind you of the statistics of matches that the teams played with each other. The teams played 20 matches with each other before. In these matches Movistar Riders won 11 times, sAw active consisits of 9 wins.