Match forudsigelse: Evil Geniuses - MOUZ | CS2 (CS:GO)

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The top ESL Pro League Season 18 tournament continues with the group stage. At stake is $835,000 and, more importantly, a ticket to IEM Katowice 2024 and BLAST Fall Finals 2023.

The tournament is now in the group stage, where teams are fighting for a place in the play-offs. We're talking about Basket B, where Evil Geniuses and MOUZ, among others, are fighting for a place in the main stage.

The teams will play each other in the first round of the lower bracket. The loser leaves the tournament in the top 32. The winner continues to fight for a ticket to the main stage of the tournament.

Let's find out who will be stronger in this match and continue their way through ESL Pro League Season 18, and who will have to say goodbye to the prospect of continuing to play on the prestigious arena.

Let's go.

MOUZ uniforms

Let's start the match analysis by analysing MOUZ's form. In this match, the team plays with the first number one.

Bookmakers are on the side of the Europeans. The odds for a MOUZ victory are at 1.17.

The numbers show that there is no faith in EG and their North American CSGO, from the word go. I couldn't agree more.

The 14th team of the world ranking has also renewed its roster before IEM Cologne, which was a test for the "mice". We have already seen how difficult it is for MOUZ to play against teams a few goals lower than NiP.

MOUZ's main achievement this season is reaching the finals of Intel Extreme Masters Dallas 2023. There they battled ENCE, but were defeated 0-2.

Prior to Long Cologne IEM Cologne MOUZ made a splash at the Elisa Invitational Spring 2023. They failed to jump above the top 4 - they were beaten by Apeks on their way to the Grand Final.

Back in the season, they made it to the top 8 at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR A, and then to the event itself. It didn't end well, as the team finished in the top-24 at Major e.

• MOUZ line-up: frozen, siuhy, torzsi, Jimpphat, xertioN.

IEM Cologne 2023 will be a test for the new line-up of the "mice". After Elisa Spring, siuhy, who previously played for GamerLegion, and Jimpphat, a youth player from MOUZ Nxt, joined the squad.

In the debut match the revamped MOUZ roster played against The MongolZ. An easy outing on paper ended in a nervous Bo1 on the dopes, followed by a 22-19 win for MOUZ on Nuke.

Already in the match to qualify for the group stage MOUZ were much more confident. They beat NiP 2-0 (16-12 Nuke and 16-7 Inferno) without any problems.

The first match of the group stage was not a big challenge for MOUZ either. NaVi lost at Ancient with a score of 16-9 and Overpass with a score of 16-12.

After beating NaVi, MOUZ failed to gain a foothold and lost the next two series. As a result, the "mice" at IEM Cologne 2023 took the top 12.

Before ESL Pro League Season 18, the team played at the local championship Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #1. They managed to win, defeating BIG 2-0 in the grand finals.

In their debut match at ESL Pro League Season 18, MOUZ faced mibr. Being the favourites, the "mice" failed to beat the Brazilians and quite unexpectedly found themselves in the bottom of Group B.

MOUZ Mapple

Inferno remains MOUZ's favourite card. Over the last 3 months, the Mice have played it three times and won all their games there. Nuke is also doing well, with MOUZ winning 3 out of 4 Nuke games played.

Among the good options are Vertigo and Ancient, where MOUZ have 2 wins in 3 games each.

The most undesirable map is Mirage. MOUZ have played it 6 times, but have only won once.

Evil Geniuses Form

Let's continue the match analysis with the Evil Geniuses uniforms. "Evil Geniuses" will play in the status of an outsider.

Bookmakers do not believe in the success of EG. And quite strongly: the odds for EG's victory are at around 5.

Everything is quite logical and even banal. EG are frankly bad.

EG played a lot in the season, but it was almost useless. At the beginning of the year there was BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2023 with top-12, and then there was top-24 at IEM Katowice 2023.

Played the previous EPL season where they finished in last place. Later A Cross, if you can call it that Top 8 at B-tier tournaments like CCT.

In May, returned to the title scene with appearances at IEM Dallas 2023 and BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2023. Top-16 at the former and Top-12 at the latter.

• Evil Geniuses lineup: autimatic, Walco, Jeorge, junior, HexT.

In the second half of the season Evil Geniuses improved their performance a bit. They have already made it to the top 4, though not at title tournaments.

EG climbed into the top four at CCT North Europe, and the last tournament before ESL Pro League Season 18 was Thunderpick World Championship 2023: North American Series. But, again, with such investment and opportunity, Ledgeath Nouns on the home stage is not what you expect when you want to play internationally.

In the first match at ESL Pro League Season 18 we played against ENCE. The opponent was a few goals higher, so it's not surprising that EG Ledge Nouns were 0-2.

Evil Geniuses Mappool

Evil Geniuses' best mapple is Ancient. They have 100% wins in 3 matches.

Next are Nuke (3 wins and 1 loss), Vertigo (4 wins, 3 losses), Inferno (3 matches, 3 losses).

The worst are Overpass (2 wins with 6 matches), and also Mirage (1 win, 4 losses).

History of head-to-head meetings

The last time the teams crossed paths with each other was back in 2022 and since that time they have not played each other. This match will be the debut face-to-face meeting between the teams.

Predicted result of EG vs MOUZ at ESL Pro League Season 18

No negativity towards EG, but they don't look like a team ready to continue their battle for the ESL Pro League Season 18 play-offs. MOUZ, even after a very dismal opening match, look like a team capable of knocking EG dry.

The result: a 2-0 win for MOUZ.