Virtus.pro vs. Hard Legion Preview & Prediction - Free CS:GO Betting Picks 6/23

Virtus.pro and Hard Legion are meeting in the Group B opening match of the WePlay! Clutch Island. These rivals have met on three occasions before, and Hard Legion leads the meetings with a 2-1 record. This match is scheduled as a best-of-three-map duel.

The Kazakhstani side Virtus.pro are coming into this encounter as firm favorites after winning five of the previous five matches. Still, they lost the latest one to Spirit at the ESL Pro League Season 12 Europe Qualifier. Over the last three months, Virtus.pro have a 60.5% win rate. When it comes to the maps during the same period, Virtus.pro are the most successful on Inferno (91.7% win rate) and Dust2 (72.2%), while they have been weaker on Overpass (33.3%) and Mirage (35.7%).

The Russian team Hard Legion are not playing particularly well in the last few weeks as they lost four of the previous six matches but managed to beat AGF at the LOOT.BET Season 7 in the most recent match. Hard Legion have a 57.8% win rate over the previous three months, while they were producing the best displays on Train map (71.4% win rate). On the other hand, Hard Legion are the weakest on Nuke (0.0%) and Vertigo (20.0%).

Pick: Over 2.5 Maps (-110) @bet365

Hard Legion won both of the latest H2H duels played in 2020, and both tilts produced a maximum of three maps. I expect to see such a scenario in this one as well, and even though I am not sure which team is going to get a win, I am pretty sure we’re going to have a tight battle with a lot of rounds. That’s why I am going with over 2.5 maps for this one.