Прогноз на матч: ENCE - G2 Esports | Counter-Strike (CS2)

ENCE and G2 will meet in the second round of the ESL Pro League Season 17 play-offs. It's worth remembering that the winner of this meeting will advance to the ¼ final, where they will play Vitality, the winner of Group C.

sAw's side missed the opening day of the play-off stage as they finished second in their group. But ENCE didn't play their best there, suffering a shock defeat at the hands of FORZE.

In turn, G2 nearly failed in the group stage of the championship, but they had enough time to rethink their game. And now the Samurai got off to a confident start in the play-offs, having seen no resistance from Movistar Riders.

Thus, ENCE face a very tough encounter which is unlikely to end in success. Moreover, I find it hard to believe in any kind of fight. Therefore, I would look out for a resounding victory for the G2 team here.

ENCE's form

The 20th ranked team in the world actually failed at the recent CCT Central Europe Malta Finals 1, where although they made the play-offs from first place, they lost twice to Eternal Fire and finished only third.

As for the start in the group stage of ESL Pro League Season 17, here the European squad beat ATK and Rare Atom without a chance, although the boys were obviously lucky with the net and the failures of the other leaders.

However, ENCE came up with nothing against FORZE in the group finals, showing an absolutely lost game. And there is a feeling that with such gifts, the team will not stay in the play-offs as they will have to play G2 here.

Recent ENCE results:

• A 2-1 win over Movistar Riders.
• A 0-2 loss to Eternal Fire.
• A 2-1 win over ATK.
• Beat Rare Atom 2-0.
• Defeat by FORZE 0-2.

Top ENCE cards:

• Nuke - 71% wins.
• Mirage - 67% of wins.
• Vertigo - 50% wins.

It is worth noting that the European team usually gives up the Overpass card.

G2 shape

The first team of the world ranking managed to qualify for the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 Europe RMR without too many problems, getting three confident victories in the qualifiers over PGE Turow, LDLC and Tricked.

As for their performance in the group stage of ESL Pro League Season 17, here the team even managed to lose to Cloud9 and also managed to hand the card to fnatic. However, in fact, G2 played great, just slowed down a bit.

Nevertheless, in the first round of the playoffs, the Samurai took a two-legged lead over the Spanish Movistar Riders. And the team proved that they'd been training hard to get a foothold in the tournament.

The latest G2 results:

• A 2-0 victory over Eternal Fire.
• A 0-2 loss to Cloud9.
• Defeated MIBR 2-0.
• Beat fnatic 2-1.
• 2-0 win over Movistar Riders.

Best G2 maps:

• Anubis - 100% wins.
• Nuke - 91% wins.
• Inferno - 82% wins.
• Vertigo - 75% wins.

Let's not forget that the European team is also not shown on the Overpass map.

ENCE - G2 encounter statistics

The teams played three meetings within the last season:

• G2's 2-1 win at the PGL Major Antwerp 2022: Challengers Stage.
• ENCE's 2-0 win at IEM Dallas 2022.
• A 2-0 win for G2 at IEM Cologne 2022.

However, the teams played with different line-ups then than now.

ENCE vs G2: Forecast

Personally, I don't see much of a chance for ENCE, as the team showed its inconsistency in their only close match. Then there's G2, who are pushing hard and have only gotten better in recent weeks in terms of play.

Either way, the initiative will be on one team, and it's definitely not ENCE. And with the cards the team has a clear problem, because it has come to the point where we have to play permoban.

Therefore, in this case, I would recommend betting on a 2-0 win for the team.