Forutsigelse av kamp: Falcons - NaVi | CS2 (CS:GO)

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The group stage of the first major tournament of the season - IEM Katowice 2024 - is gaining momentum. There are 10 teams left in the race for $1,000,000 and three trips to major international events - Esports World Cup, IEM Cologne 2024 and BLAST Premier: World Finals 2024.

Among them are Natus Vincere and Falcons. The clubs will play each other in a Group A head-to-head match. A skill match.

We are trying to find out which of the clubs will be more resilient and qualify for the IEM Katowice 2024 play-offs.

Let's go.

Natus Vincere's form

Let's open the match with an analysis of NaVi's form. In this match "born to win" will play the first number with odds to win at around 1.45.

NaVi had a series of good tournaments last season while still in the previous squad. They placed high in almost every one.

They started with a top 6 at BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2023. Then top-3 at IEM Katowice 2023 and a similar result at ESL Pro League Season 17.

NaVi took BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR A without any problems and qualified for the Major in Paris. Before the only Major of the season, Natus Vincere took the top 4 at the IEM Masters Rio 2023.

The Paris tournament turned out to be a failure for NaVi. Top-11 is hardly a decent result for a team of Natus Vincere's status.

• NaVi roster: w0nderful, b1t, Aleksib, jL, iM.

Before the Long Conner IEM Cologne NaVi made a global Reshuffle, translating the roster into English. In addition to electroNic, Perfecto and npl who left, jL with Apeks, iM with GamerLegion and Aleksib, who previously played for Ninjas in Pyjamas, joined the team.

With the new lineup, NaVi made their debut at BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2023. "Born to Win" managed to earn a place in the autumn finals by finishing in the top 4-6.

At IEM Cologne 2023 Natus Vincere played two matches. First, they lost to MOUZ with a score of 0-2, and then defeated OG in Bo3. At the end of the top championship NaVi reached the top 8, which is a good result for the then renewed roster.

Then there were a number of appearances at major events with very good results. NaVi entered the top 8 at Gamers8 and took the top 2 at ESL Pro Legue Season 18.

The key tournament of the season for "yellow-black" can be called IEM Sydney 2023. There NaVi for the first time in a long time played without their main headliner S1mple, whose place was temporarily taken by coach B1ad3. Andrew tried, but NaVi could not jump above the top-12.

After S1mple left the active roster, NaVi started the game with w0nderful. He made his debut for the Yellow-Blacks at BLAST Premier: World Final 2023. Natus Vincere played him very well, reaching the top 4. In the match for the Grand Final Ledgeili future tournament champions and the best team in the world Vitality.

The year 2024 started on a high note. First they were the best at PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: European Qualifier A, and then earned a place at BLAST Premier: Spring Final, finishing on top-1 in their group at BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024.

NaVi debuted at IEM Katowice 2024 with a 1-2 loss to Team Spirit. Next were Apeks, who made Natus Vincere fans nervous, but in the end they couldn't beat "born to win" and left the championship. Next, NaVi had no trouble with Eternal Fire (2-1).

NaVi Mappool

The best NaVi map for 3 months is Inferno. The team played there 5 times with a win rate of 60 per cent.

On Mirage, Ancient. Nuker, Overpass and Anubis NaVi has 50% wins. On Ancient and Nuke the team played 4 matches each, on the others - 2.

Vertigo are not playing.

Falcons form

We continue the match review with the analysis of Falcons' form. In this match the "dream team" play as the number two, with odds to win around 2.6.

The 11th team of the HLTV world ranking shows rather "blurred" results. The 2023 season can be called a failure.

All 2023 Falcons were, as they call it, in search of themselves. They started the professional season by playing at B-Tier tournaments: Thunderpick Bitcoin Series #2, OMEN WRG Challenge 2023 and CCT West Europe Series #1. At the first two, they celebrated a top-2 finish, and at the more prestigious CCT, a top-8 finish.

Later tried to make it to the Paris Major . Had two attempts, at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR A and BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR B. Both were unsuccessful: top-11 and top-6.

In the middle of the year, Falcons continued to bang their heads against the wall. Top-13 at ESL Challenge League Season 45: Europe, Top-10 at ESL Championnat National Spring 2023 and Top-24 at Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #1.

Tried to qualify for IEM Sydney 2023, but fell off at the top-64 stage in the open qualifiers. As a Saudi Arabian club they got a slot at Gamers8 2023, where they played to the best of their ability, which is Top 16.

• Falcons line-up: BOROS, Snappi, Magisk, maden, SunPayus.

At the end of the year Falcons tried to put together DreamTeam. So far they are not doing so well, because they failed in the first tournament with the new squad. That was BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024, where the team finished top-12.

At IEM Katowice 2024 they got to the IEM Katowice 2024 by ESL Ranking points. There they were ranked in the top 10 before the tournament's Long Shogpeg, but for what merits - a big mystery.

IEM Katowice 2024 Falcons started with a defeat against the best team of Turkey - Eternal Fire. After losing to the Turks, Falcons were close to crashing out of the tournament in a lower bracket match against Rebels, but managed to stay afloat thanks to a 2-1 win. In fact, a similar situation occurred in the match against CoL, where the Falcons gave away the first card but cameback on the second and closed out the series with a third.

Falcons Mappool

The Falcons' best map is Nuke (1 game, 1 win). Next is Ancient (1 win, 1 loss).

Among the unfavourable maps for Falcons are Vertigo and Anubis. On the former they have 3 matches and 1 win, while on Anubis they have 1 loss.

History of head-to-head meetings between Falcons and NaVi

Previously, the teams have not played each other in official matches.

Predicted result of NaVi vs Falcons at IEM Katowice 2024

Both teams are playing at IEM Katowice 2024 very, very hard. You can see how difficult each win is and you can see that both will have very serious problems in the play-offs.

As for this particular match, everything says that we are expecting 2-1 here as well. However, I still believe in the victory of NaVi, who have better prospects in the main stage than the still raw Falcons.

Bottom line: NaVi win.