Match Prediction: PSG.LGD - Virtus.pro | Dota 2

First of all, it's worth to notice that the Chinese team placed the top of Group A and advanced to the playoffs with the best result. The team beat Team Secret, Team Liquid, Mineski, Chaos Esports Club, and Keen Gaming with a score 2-0 and made a draw with Alliance, Newbee, and TNC Predator. We are sure that if the series against the last three teams had been in a bo3 format, the Chinese would have become the winners. The Chinese team is in a nice gaming shape and even defeated the main favorite in the face of Team Secret. Despite the formed meta at The International 2019, the Chinese are offering their opponents a large pool of their heroes, having picked 36 heroes in the group stage. The meta heroes like Gyrocopter, Sven, Sand King, and Shadow Demon brought Maybe and his teammates victories in all matches, in which the Chinese were using all above-mentioned heroes. All of this brings a lot of confidence in the victory of PSG.LGD in this match.

Virtus.pro, in turn, were on the brink of stepping down to the lower bracket during the whole group stage and played with an unstable success. Due to both won maps in the match against Fnatic, the CIS team managed to avoid rematches and placed 4th in the group, which allowed them to advance to the upper bracket. VP defeated Ninjas in Pyjamas, Infamous, and Fnatic, and lost matches to Natus Vincere and OG. Matches with RNG and EG were over with a draw. Virtua.pro's pool of heroes was wider than PSG.LGD's one but it didn't help the representatives of VP - 18 chosen heroes out of 43 had a 0% win rate. There is some kind of pressure on the players of the CIS roster. The community noticed for a reason that VP had placed 5th-6th at The International twice and thinks that they will achieve the same at this championship. Analysts and casters also notice that young players may feel panic when the game goes not as planned. VP proved in the recent match with Fnatic that it was not right - the team made a comeback with 15k of advantage and won two maps.

A part of the community thinks that Virtus.pro's performance in the group stage is a preparation for the playoffs: the players don't want to show their best strategies to surprise a team and weak their attention. It definitely may and should work out but not with the vice-champion of the previous The International, PSG.LGD. This team is one of the best in China and has come to the tournament as one of the main favorites but the obvious ones.

Odds on the victory of PSG.LGD are 1.5. In our view, it is pretty fair and is a nice opportunity to make money. However, it's not worth getting too much on the Chinese. What if VP had prepared something that special that will surprise even PSG.LGD?