Прогноз на матч: Heroic - 9z | Counter-Strike (CS2)

Heroic and 9z will meet in the IEM Dallas 2023 top group stage quarter-finals. As terrible as the Danes played in the semi-finals of the majors, 9z is clearly not a team that can pull off any kind of sensation.

And it has gotten to the point where the Latin American team does not even show consistent play in their region. And at the recent championships in Rio de Janeiro 9z did not show anything, suffering two defeats.

We cannot say anything about the Danes, because they are in good form. Again, the defeat by GamerLegion is complete nonsense, because if the boys play nine more games, they will close all nine. So here I would lean on a logical victory for the Heroic team.

Heroic's form

The second team of the world ranking played well in the IEM Rio 2023, where in spite of losing to BIG in the group, they reached the final. However, there the boys failed to cope with Vitality, which in today's environment is not a shame.

Next, the Danish team stormed into the main stage of the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023, where they routinely shut out FaZe Clan, Apeks and Team Liquid to get high seeding in the play-offs.

Already here Heroic were again able to outplay FaZe Clan, seemingly paving the way to the final. But the Danes fell short against GamerLegion in the ½ final, believing too soon in their victory.

Heroic's latest results:

• Victory over FaZe Clan with a score of 16-7.
• Victory over Apeks by a score of 16-10.
• Victory over Team Liquid by a score of 2-1.
• Victory over FaZe Clan with a score of 2-1.
• Defeat by GamerLegion 1-2.

Top scorers of Heroic:

• Ancient - 100% wins.
• Mirage - 75% wins.
• Nuke - 75% wins.
• Vertigo - 67% wins.
• Overpass - 57% wins.
• Inferno - 55% wins.

It should not be forgotten that the Danish team has long refused to use Anubis.

Form 9z

The 40th ranked team in the world managed with their own forces to qualify for IEM Dallas 2023, beating Fluxo and twice defeating 00NATION.

They then crashed and burned at IEM Rio 2023, suffering two defeats, but then clinched qualification for ESL Challenger Katowice 2023.

On the other hand, 9z were most recently restricted to the CCT South America Series 7 semi-finals, with defeat to Sharks Esports proving too easy on their opponent.

9z's latest results:

• A 2-1 win over Paquetá.
• A 2-1 win over MIBR.
• 2-0 win over W7M Academy.
• 2-0 win over Paquetá.
• A 0-2 defeat to Sharks Esports.

Top 9z:

• Mirage - 100% wins.
• Ancient - 88% wins.
• Nuke - 83% wins.
• Inferno - 75% wins.

In turn, the Latin American team has not played on the Vertigo map for a long time.

Heroic - 9z match statistics

The teams haven't met in their current lineups yet.

Outlook for the match Heroic - 9z

Here you look at 9z and understand why the team cannot compete with Europe. If even last year the Latin Americans were sitting on bootcamps, now they're grindin' at the local level.

So it turns out that at any rate 9z remains behind, and I admit that now may repeat the history of the match with FaZe Clan. Moreover, the Danes certainly won't underestimate their opponent twice because they've already had enough of the jokes.

Therefore, in this case, I would recommend betting on Heroic's victory with a handicap (-5.5).