Match Prediction: Astralis - FaZe | CS2 (CS:GO)
FACEIT Major: London 2018The last time when the collectives met happened in the middle of June at the final part of the tournament ECS Season 5 and then Dev1ce and the team appeared to be stronger winning over their opponents by the score 2:0 on the maps “Train” and “Inferno”.
Astralis have a very good shape in comparison to other team but not the best if we compare them with themselves. Thanks to the wins at major championships, the collective managed to get placed on the first position of the world rating according to HLTV. We should mark that FACEIT Major: London 2018 - New Challengers Stage resulted in their loss against NiP at the additional rounds and 13:16 against Rogue, that proves presence of some in-game problems. The collective have improved at the championship and have already won over Natus Vincere and Vega Squadron at FACEIT Major: London 2018 - New Legends Stage, while Team Liquid turned out to be stronger than the Danish players at the additional rounds and didn't let gla1ve and the team complete the stage with the statistics 3:0. At the last match Astralis just roasted MiBR, defeating them by the score of 16:0 on the map “dust 2”.
FaZe Clan have worsened their shape for sure as at last two championships they were not able to get to Four Best - ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier 2018 resulted in the 7-8 position for the guys and at DreamHack Masters Stockholm 2018 the roster got the 5-6 position. At the first match of New Legends, NiKo and his team lost against BIG and after that failed at the meetings with Natus Vincere and won over Mousesports. We should mark that NiKo and the team are getting better at the championship and now they look much more dangerous than on the first play day which was proved by the win over TyLoo. At the last match the roster looked good and had no difficulty to defeat G2 eSports.
Bookmakers think that Astralis are the favourites of the battle and set the coefficient of their win equal to 1.4, while the triumph of FaZe Clan is evaluated as 2.6. We totally agree with the opinion that the Danish players are stronger than NiKo and the team but the coefficients don't reflect the true difference in the teams’ levels as FaZe can appear to be stronger.