Natus Vincere taber sensationelt NiP i gruppespillet ESL Pro League Season 16

The confrontation between Ninjas In Pajamas and Natus Vincere ended with the score 2:1 in favor of the Swedish five. And although the NaVi team still goes to the playoffs, this defeat can hit the morale of both the team and the fans very hard.

The first matchup map was Inferno, the choice of the Ninjas In Pajamas team. Today, the Swedes were on the offensive side, because with their perseverance they earned as many as 11 rounds for the terrorists. In turn, the Natus Vincere team could not get close to the opponent's result and could not give a worthy rebuff, but this result on Inferno is clearly an alarming call for the top 1 team in the world ranking. Ninjas In Pajamas 16:8 Natus Vincere.

On their choice, the Mirage map, the Born to Win team demonstrated their strength and won the attacking side with a large number of rounds (10:5). On defense, they also experienced no difficulties and were able to put the squeeze on Mirage and reduce everything to Overpass. Natus Vincere 16:9 Ninjas In Pajamas.

On the same Overpass, where Natus Vincere failed yesterday against Team Vitality, they were able to take a satisfactory number of rounds for the attack in the first half, but today the problems were already on the side of the defense. NiP reached the match point without any problems, and only then the Born to Win began to gain rounds in their asset, but this was not enough for overtime and for victory in general. Definitely, the coach of the B1ad3 team will have to pay attention to the problematic sides of NaVi on Overpass, time after time they fail all their ideas and get lost on the map at some moments. Based on the results of Natus Vincere's latest matches, we can conclude that they are far from their peak form, who knows, maybe the team will turn on the "fifth gear" in the playoffs, but we will find out only at the end of this month. The playoffs will start on September 27th and will last until October 2nd. Ninjas In Pajamas 16:11 Natus Vincere.

ESL Pro League Season 16 runs from August 31st to October 2nd in Malta at the Salini Resort. 24 teams from Europe, CIS, North and South America compete for a total prize pool of $835,000. The winner of the tournament will receive the main prize of $175,000, as well as tickets to BLAST Premier: World Final 2022 and IEM Katowice 2023.