Vitality vs. Liquid, Preview, & Prediction - Free 9/16 CS: GO

The opponents will play at Group A Upper Bracket-Opening round of the BLAST Premier Fall Groups 2021 this Thursday. In this match, the winner will advance to the Group A upper final while the loser will be dropped to the lower bracket.

Vitality Team Stats and Latest Results

Vitality Team is placed 5th on the world ranking and has been among the top 30 teams for 103 weeks. They are coming to this tournament after registering an impressive performance at the ESL Pro League Season 14. At the ESL S14, they finished 2nd and were awarded $80,000. Meanwhile, they were part of the IEM Cologne 2021 Play-In and finished 1-4th. They also finished 9-12th at the IEM Cologne 2021 in July. Out of their last 8 matches, they have won 6 matches and have a win rate of 73.3%.

Map performance over the last 3 months shows that the team has been impressive on Cobblestone (100.0%), Overpass (87.5%), Inferno (80.0%), Nuke (71.4%), Vertigo (66.7%), and Mirage (62.5%). On the other hand, they failed to show a decent performance on Dust2 (20.0%). The team line-up consists of shox (1.03), apEX (1.03), ZywOo (1.32), misutaaa (1.00), and Kyojin (0.96).

Liquid Team Stats and Latest Results

Liquid Team is ranked 11th on the global ranking and has been among the top 30 teams for 143 weeks. The team failed to advance to the semi-finals of the ESL Pro League Season 14 after losing to Heroic (1-2) and finished 5-8th. Meanwhile, they won the cs_summit 8 in May and were awarded $17,000 plus 1600 RMR Points. Considering their performance over the last 8 matches, they have won 5 matches and have a win rate of 60.0%.

Map stats over the last 3 months indicate that they have been impressive on Overpass (100.0%) and Inferno (83.3%). At the same time, they achieved an average performance on Dust2 (50.0%) and Mirage (50.0%) but failed to attain the average win rate on Nuke (40.0%) and Vertigo (33.3%). They have maintained one line-up that includes FalleN (1.01), NAF (1.15), EliGE (1.16), Stewie2K (1.03), and Grim (1.04).

Vitality vs. Liquid H2H Record

Head-to-head records have 2 meetings between the opponents and both sides have 1 win to their side. The last meeting was at the IEM Katowice 2021 and Liquid won 2-1.

Vitality vs. Liquid Betting Preview

This is a perfect example of an over 2.5 match because both sides have displayed impressive stats on the maps. Vitality leads on Mirage, Nuke, and Vertigo while Liquid has a better performance on Dust2, Inferno, and Overpass. At the same time, both sides won 1 match as seen on the H2H stats. Considering the win rate, Vitality has a 73.3% win rate while Liquid has a 60.0% win rate. For this reason, we believe Vitality will win but Liquid will take 1 map.

The Pick: Vitality to win/ Over 2.5 maps.