Match Prediction: Ninjas in Pyjamas - Team Liquid | CS2 (CS:GO)
FACEIT Major: London 2018The last time when the collectives met happened at the beginning of March 2018 at IEM Katowice 2018 and then the guys from Team Liquid turned out to be stronger winning over their opponents by the score of 2:1.
At the moment Team Liquid are one of the best teams on the professional stage. The guys hold the third position in the world rating and in several last months they managed to get the second places at ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier 2018 and Esports Championship Series Season 5 - Finals, and also took the 3-4 position at ESL One: Belo Horizonte 2018. The collective overcame the New Challengers stage masterfully, finishing it with three wins. At the Legends Stage, TACO and Co appeared to be stronger than Winstrike.
Meanwhile, NiP hold the eighth place in the world rating according to HLTV, thanks to the victory at Europe Minor Championship - London 2018 and the 3-4 place during DreamHack Masters Stockholm 2018. At the New Challengers stage, the collective got the win over Virtus.Pro, Astralis and TyLoo, and as for New Legends Stage they turned out to be stronger than Mousesports.
Bookmakers think that Liquid are favourites of the battle and set the coefficient of their win equal to 1.6, while the triumph of NiP is evaluated as 2.2. We agree with the opinion of the bookmakers and will lean towards the North American collective.