forZe vs. Sinners, Preview and Prediction-Free 8/26 CS: GO

The ESL Pro League Season 14 Group C matches starts this Thursday. The winner in this group gets a bye to the quarter-finals while the second and third-placed team will start at the playoffs round 1. forZe is the favourite to win this match.

forZe Stats and Latest Results

forZe is ranked 16th on the global ranking and has been among the top 30 teams for 124 weeks. The Russian team recently won the Domination League Season 2 and were awarded $22,000. At the Pinnacle Cup II, they were eliminated by Spirit at the Semi-finals and finished 3-4th. Meanwhile, they are also part of the upcoming Gjirafa50 Masters League Season 2, Pinnacle Fall Series 1, and REPUBLEAGUE TIPOS Season 2. Considering the team’s performance in the last 8 matches, they have won 6 matches and holds a win rate of 72.2%.

Map statistics in the last 3 months shows that forZe displayed a decent performance on Mirage (88.9%), Overpass (71.4%), Ancient (63.6%), and Inferno (61.5%). They achieved an average performance on Dust2 (50.0%) but failed to impress on Nuke (30.0%). Their line-up consists of almazer (1.06), FL1T (1.14), Jerry (1.06), zorte (1.12), and KENSI (1.05).

Sinners Stats and Latest Results

Sinners is ranked 20th on the world ranking and has been among the top 30 teams for 19 weeks. They won the ESEA Premier Season 37 Europe and Sazka eLEAGUE Spring 2021 in June where they received $20,000 and $4,762 respectively. At the same time, they were part of the Pinnacle Cup II where they lost to Endpoint (1-2) in the semi-finals. Considering their performance in the last 8 weeks, they won 5 and lost 3. Their win rate stands at 60.0%.

Map performance in the last 3 months indicates that the team has been impressive on Train (100.0%), Mirage (70.0%), Vertigo (66.7%), and Ancient (60.0%). They attained an average win rate on Overpass (50.0%) but failed to give a decent performance on Nuke (44.4%) and Inferno (37.5%). The line-up includes oskar (1.19), ZEDKO (1.04), beastik (1.00), SHOCK (1.03), and NEOFRAG (1.19).

forZe vs. Sinners H2H Record

Head-to-head records show that the opponents have met in 3 matches. forZe has won in 2 matches while Sinners has won in 1. Their last encounter was at the REPUBLEAGUE TIPOS Season 1 and forZe won.

forZe vs. Sinners Betting Preview

I do believe Sinners have a chance in this one, but I am going with forZe to win. It will probably not be an easy win, so the handicap bettors can try with Sinners to cover a +1.5 handicap or Over 2.5 maps. Sinners hasn't been impressive of late because they only lead on Nuke and Vertigo but have attained a good win rate in other cards. For this reason, we are backing forZe to win but Sinners will snatch 1 map.

The Pick: forZe to win.