Прогноз на матч CS2 Imperial Esports - Liquid

Imperial and Liquid will meet at the PGL Major Antwerp 2022 Challengers Stage. It can be seen that the North American CS is in a deep hole, as both teams showed a terrible game at the start of the championship. But if you can still expect a return from the “liquid”, then I don’t expect this from the old people, analyzing what I saw in the first round.

Form Liquid

The 13th team in the world ranking has recently been performing with varying degrees of success. And it all started at BLAST Premier Spring Showdown 2022 North America, where the team sensationally lost to paiN and was eliminated. So, at the start of PGL Major Antwerp 2022, the North Americans did not grow together on Inferno, because they did not oppose G2. Moreover, it seems that Liquid is ready to fail this major.

Liquid's latest results:

• Victory over Gaimin Gladiators with a score of 2:0.
• Victory over Evil Geniuses with a score of 2:1.
• Victory over Complexity with a score of 2:0.
• Defeat from paiN with a score of 1:2.
• Lost to G2 with a score of 6:16.

Best Liquid cards:

• Mirage - 80% of wins.
• Vertigo - 67% of wins.
• Dust 2 - 60% of wins.
• Ancient - 57% of wins.
• Inferno - 50% win rate.

I note that the North American team stopped playing on the Nuke map.

Form Imperial

The 32nd team of the world ranking performed well in the PGL Major Antwerp 2022 Americas RMR, and after that they also qualified for IEM Dallas 2022. However, in the first round of the major, the Brazilians did not show anything interesting, and they also lost their coach before the start. Honestly, if it goes on like this, Imperial will bury a bunch of predictions.

Imperial's latest results:

• Defeated by 9z with a score of 1:2.
• Victory over Cruzeiro with a score of 2:0.
• Victory over 9z with a score of 2:0.
• Victory over MIBR with a score of 2:1.
• Defeated by Team Spirit with a score of 6:16.

Best Imperial cards:

• Overpass - 100% wins.
• Inferno - 82% of wins.
• Mirage - 67% of wins.
• Dust 2 - 56% win rate
• Nuke - 56% win rate

The Brazilian team will definitely refuse the Ancient map.

Imperial vs Liquid stats

The teams have not met before.

Prediction for Imperial vs Liquid

If you start from the North American scene, Liquid clicks on such matches one or two. Still, the Brazilians, despite the outstanding matches in the past weeks, did not drive up to the mood at all. As for the "liquid", these guys are clearly not inferior to their counterparts in experience - the main advantage of Imperial. Therefore, here I would recommend betting on the victory of the Liquid team with Handicap in rounds (-3.5).