In the decisive match for reaching the playoffs of the tournament in Rio de Janeiro IEM Major 2022, the Russian team Spirit will play against Liquid from the USA.
SpiritThe Russian team played a very strong match for survival at the tournament in Brazil yesterday.
Yesterday, in a game of the VO3 Spirit format, the Danish Sprout team was defeated on two maps – 16:9 Nuke (its peak) and 16:8 Vertigo. In this meeting, almost the entire Spirit squad showed an equal and good game. Patsi and w0nderful finished the match with a score of +12 in frags, and magixx and chopper finished the match with a score of +10 in frags.
LiquidThe team from the USA, in turn, played a very hard match for reaching the playoffs of the tournament that night, but failed.
In the VO3 Liquid format game, they lost to the Danish Heroic team on three maps – 8:16 Vertigo (their peak); 16:5 Mirage and 11:16 Overpass. At the same time, on the Vertigo Liquid map, they took six rounds for the attack side in the first half of the map, but failed in defense. And on the Overpass map after the first half, Liquid lost 4:11 for the attack side, the team from the USA played well for a while for the attack side, but then Heroic were able to take five rounds in a row and close the match in their favor.
Liquid and Spirit played together on the seventh of July at the IEM Cologne 2022 LAN tournament. Then, in the quarterfinals of the upper bracket in group B in a game of the VO3 format, the Russian team was stronger in a very stubborn struggle – 8:16 Dust2 (its peak); 16:9 Overpass and 22:20 Ancient.
ForecastIn this match, Liquid is considered by bookmakers to be a fairly clear favorite, however, Spirit will certainly be able to impose at least a stubborn struggle in this decisive match.
We suggest that you bet more than 64.5 rounds on the total.
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