Match Prediction: Team Liquid - FaZe Clan | CS2 (CS:GO)
BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024Welcome to EGamersWorld.
We continue to discuss BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024, the first major tournament of the season. Slowly but surely we have reached the decisive matches in the group stage.
This time we're talking about what's going on in quartet B. There in the match for play-offs will face renewed Liquid and stable strong FaZe Clan.
The game between such teams is doomed to a bright Counter-Strike. Let's see if it will be so, and at the same time we'll try to see which of the teams will go to the play-offs BLAST Premier: Spring Group Finals 2024.
Let's go.
FaZe Clan uniforms
Let's start the analysis of the match with the analysis of FaZe Clan's form. In this match they will play in the status of the favourite, with the odds to win around 1.4.
One of the most stable teams of the last season has quite an extensive record in the first half of the year. However, it predominantly consists of "near" top results.
From the main achievements - getting into the top three at BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2023 and winning at ESL Pro League Season 17. Also this year FaZe got the award for the 4th season of Intel Grand Slam, enriched by $1,000,000.
Speaking of award tournaments, there was less luck here. Top-12 at IEM Rio 2023, and Top-4 at IEM Dallas 2023. At the only Major e in the season FaZe did not cope with the tension, but made it to TOP-8.
Before the Long Conference IEM Cologne 2023 they attended two tournaments of BLAST series: Spring Final 2023 and Fall Groups 2023. At the Finals they were ranked Top 6, and at the Fall Groups 2023 they were in the top three, earning themselves a slot at the Autumn Finals.
- FaZe Clan line-up: karrigan, rain, Frozen, ropz, broky.
Despite the ubiquitous Reshuffle and rather "average" results for the year, FaZe didn't change the main roster. However, there were some substitutions: FaZe presented a new coach, who became the legendary Pole NEO. On his post he replaced the legendary RobbaN and it affected FaZe's gameplay in IEM Cologne 2023, where FaZe took the top-12.
The setbacks continued from there onwards. At Gamers8 2023 FaZe Clan took a similar place (9-12), Ledgeiv at the Long Segment of the Vp tournament with the score 2-0.
Things didn't go too well at ESL Pro League Season 18. FaZe made it to the play-offs on the top grid of Group C, defeating 9Z Team and Fnatic, but in the match for seeding in the main stage they lost to NaVi with the score 0-2. However, FaZe didn't manage to play long at ESL Pro League Season 18: in the first play-offs match, which for FaZe started from the second stage, the team met MOUZ. The future EPL champions sent FaZe Clan home. As a result FaZe found themselves on the 9-12th place of the top tournament.
FaZe rehabilitated quite quickly. Already at IEM Sydney 2023 they triumphed with the victory over CoL in the grand final.
Thunderpick World Championship 2023 FaZe Clan have a great time. The titular European club passed the group stage without problems becoming the best team of the quartet B, and then took part in the play-offs of the championship.
The first opponent for FaZe in the play-offs of Thunderpick World Championship 2023 was MOUZ. A serious opponent, but FaZe did well: 2-1 in favour of the champions of IEM Sydney 2023.
Later MOUZ played against C9 in the match for the final of the tournament and won. They finished what they started with a match against Vp in the grand finals of Thunderpick World Championship 2023, becoming the champion of the $500,000 online tournament.
At CS Asia Championship 2023 FaZe confidently made their way to the play-offs through Group B. Having taken unquestionable TOP-1 the team went directly to the semi-finals of the tournament. FaZe then went head-to-head: first they defeated ENCE 2-1 and in the grand final they defeated MOUZ 2-0.
The last tournament before the BLAST Premier: World FInals 2023 was the BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2023. There FaZe took the top 2, Ledgeiv in the Vitality Grand Final.
At BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2023 FaZe, playing with substitutes, managed to take the top 1 in their group. They took turns beating Heroic and then G2. At this rate they reached the grand final, but there Ledge or Vitality. Almost identical outcome was also at BLAST Premier: World Final 2023, where FaZe again lost to Vitality in the grand final.
BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024 started off on a Mignon note. FaZe Ledge stomped GamerLegion 0-2, but then regrouped and stomped Spirit in the bottom set, closing out the meeting with a 2-0 score. In the match for the final of Group B FaZe Clan again played against GamerLegion, but this time with a different outcome: FaZe were stronger, although the game ended with three maps with the score 2-1 in favour of the top 3 team Hltv.
FaZe Clan mappool
The best map of FaZe is Mirage. They played 12 matches and won 9 of them.
Then there were Overpass with 8 matches and 5 wins. They play Nuke (7 matches, 4 wins), Inferno (9 matches, 5 wins). Worse is Ancient with 3 wins in 6 matches, and worst of all was Anubis. His FaZe was picked 7 times, but played with a winrate of 42%.
Team Liquid's form
We continue the match analysis with the analysis of Team Liquid's game form. In this match, Liquid will play in the status of an outsider, with almost a twofold gap: the odds for victory are at 2.7.
The American club had a pretty productive 2023 season. Played in a lot of tournaments, but high results were rare.
They started the year with a top-4 finish at IEM Katowice 2023, where they reached the top 4. Next was the equally good BLAST Premier: Spring American Showdown with a similar top-4, and then BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: American RMR followed by a top-3 and a trip to the main tournament of the year.
Unfortunately for Liquid, that's where their results ended. At BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023, the team made it to the top 8 and that was their biggest achievement of the year.
After making it to the legends stage at the only Major tournament of the season, Liquid played at a lot of big events. These included IEM Dallas 2023 with a top-12 ranking, BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2023 with a top-9 ranking, and IEM Master Cologne with a top-12 ranking.
At the end of the season they played at Gamers8 2023, finishing in the top 16 and ESL Pro League Season 18, finishing in the top 20. Closed the year with a second place finish at BLAST Premier: Fall American Showdown 2023.
- Team Liquid roster: NAF, YEKINDAR, skullz, cadiaN, Twistzz.
A string of failures at major championships has caused major roster changes. Such that Liquid in 2024 can be called the "Dream Team", but the status still has to be earned.
2024 began with qualifiers for the American RMR. They came out, which is not surprising. They also tried to qualify for IEM Chengdu 2024, but were not successful: Ledge and M80 made it to the final of the qualifiers.
BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024 is very successful for Team Liquid. First they beat Team Spirit 2-1 in a full-fledged Bo3, and then easily beat GL to reach the group finals.
Team Liquid Mappool
Team Liquid's top 1 map in the last 3 months is Mirage. Liquid has a mind-blowing winrate of 92% with 13 games played.
They also played on Inferno, where they won 5 matches out of 7 games. Nuke is also in plus winrate, where the "ninjas" have 3 wins from 5 matches.
The most not favoured map for Team Liquid will be Vertigo. There they have 6 maps and only 1 victory.
History of personal meetings FaZe Clan - Team Liquid
FaZe and Liquid played each other 4 times in the season 2023. The teams have exchanged pleasantries 2 times each. Notably, Liquid only won 2-1, while FaZe Clan won 2-0, and more - the victories alternated. The last time FaZe Clan won.
Predicted result of FaZe Clan vs Team Liquid at BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024
From this match I expect an equal game. Everything that is happening points to a full-fledged Bo3: FaZe Clan is not in prime form, because they have difficulties throughout the group stage (two series against GL are worth it), while Liquid are still going through a period of adaptation after significant shuffles in the lineup. My bet is over 2.5.
Bottom line: total +2.5.
Bookmakers & Statistics
All bookmakers have agreed that FaZe Clan is the favorite. This can be noticed because odds on them are 1.369. This number in the favor of Team Liquid amounts 3.794. Respectively, the last ones are the underdogs of the upcoming match.
Team statistics in recent matches
Last Matches | Team Liquid | FaZe Clan |
5 matches (wins) | 4 | 3 |
10 matches (wins) | 9 | 7 |
It will also be necessary to mention the history of face-to-face meetings between the opponents. The teams played 33 matches with each other before. And Team Liquid won 12 times while FaZe Clan correspondingly became the winner 21 times.