Forutsigelse av kamp: Cloud9 - 9INE | CS2 (CS:GO)

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The CSGO event called IEM Cologne 2023 continues in Cologne. There are 16 teams playing for the $1,000,000 prize pool, but the number of participants will start to dwindle today.

First to play their match for life will be C9 and 9INE. The clubs will play each other in a Bo3 match for the right to stay in the tournament and continue their way to the play-offs on the lower Group A grid.

We will try to find out who of this pair will be more capable, defeat their counterpart and continue to fight for prestige, big money and a ticket to IEM Katowice 2024.

Let's go.

Cloud9's form

Let's start the match review with an analysis of Cloud9's form. In this fight they are the clear favourite for the match.

Bookmakers are confident in the victory of C9. The chance of success in this game is estimated at odds around 1.5.

There is no need to be surprised by the position of C9 in this match. They were one of the contenders to win the tournament as a whole, but something still went wrong.

The 10th world ranked team had a very good half year. "Cloudy" celebrated a Pass to the grand finals of ESL Pro League Season 17 and a win at BLAST Premier: Spring European Showdown 2022.

In addition, the team won the commercial BB Playlist. Urbanistic. In April, C9 seriously stumbled: they lost two qualifications at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 and missed the only Major of the season.

Next up was a top-4 finish at IEM Rio 2023 and a win at Brazy Party. Before IEM Cologne 2023, C9 failed IEM Dallas 2023 (top-8) and BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2023 (top-8).

• Cloud9 line-up: H0bbit, electroNic, Ax1Le, sh1ro, Perfecto.

C9 were felt to be one of the favourites for the tournament due to their revamped line-up. Before the IEM Cologne 2023 Long Conference, Perfecto and Electronic joined the team. The experienced duo was clearly meant to strengthen stun C9, but IEM Cologne 2023 doesn't show that yet.

In their first match at the German tournament, C9 faced fnatic, who advanced to the group stage from Play-In. "Orange" proved to be stronger and shut down the stronger opponent with a score of 2-1.

Cloud9 Mappool.

The best map C9 is Vertigo. It has 2 wins in 3 matches.

Next is Inferno. On Inferno Cloud9 played 5 times, of which they won 3 matches.

Minus winrate on 4 maps at once: Ancient (42% wins in 7 matches), Overpass (33% wins in 3 matches), Anubis (3 matches, 33% wins), Mirage (2 matches, 0 wins).

Nuke are not playing.

Form 9INE.

We continue the match analysis with the analysis of 9INE form. In this match the Polish club plays in the status of favourite.

The odds for the Polish club to win are estimated at around 2.4. I am sure, before the Long Round of the tournament such a position seemed like a fantasy.

9INE had a very fruitful first half of the year, which allowed the Polish club to climb into the top 20 of the best teams in the world. However, the lion's share of the events played were TIR-2 events.

9INE managed to get a number of victories at OMEN WGR Challenge 2023, GAM3RS_X Polish Clash and other local tournaments. However, the main achievements came in the spring of this year.

In April, 9INE triumphed at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: Europe RMR B, which opened the way to BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023. The Major itself ended for the Poles in the top 16.

Before the IEM Cologne 2023 Long Circuit, 9INE picked up another important win. They qualified for the big-budget Gamers8 by beating SAW in last chance qualification.

• 9INE roster: Goofy, KEi, Kylar, mynio, hades.

9INE is one of the most stable Play-In IEM Cologne teams. The club has been playing in such a roster for half a year already.

The first Play-In IEM Cologne 2023 opponent for 9INE was OG. The Poles won with a score of 19-17.

Then there was a loss from Fnatic (0-2), and then a minimal sensation in the form of a victory over Liquid in the match for the exit to the group stage. Then 9INE dealt with the North American club with a score of 2-1.

In the first match of the play-offs, 9INE were up against ENCE, but came up a little short. The Finns turned the game around on the decisive Mirage and sent 9INE to the bottom of the group stage on extra time.

9INE's mappool

9INE's best map is Vertigo. There the Poles won 14 matches with only 4 losses.

Next are Mirage (66% wins in 6 games), Anubis (58% wins in 12 maps) and Nuke (57% winrate in 7 matches).

The worst maps for 9INE are Ancient with 36% wins in 7 matches and Inferno, where the Poles have not won a single match in 3 maps.

History of head-to-head meetings

The last time C9 and 9INE played each other was at Brazy Party 2023. Then Cloud9 won with the score 2-1.

Predicted result of the match Cloud9 - 9INE

The Poles have a good track record in this tournament and have performed very well in almost all of their games. We have seen that they are able to compete with nominally higher ranked clubs in the matches against Liquid and the top seeded match against ENCE. They lack a bit of confidence, but even without that, 9INE are capable of picking up at least 1 card.

Bottom line: +1.5 on 9INE.