Monte
The main opening of the candidates tournament – the Ukrainian Monte team – continues to delight its fans at the stage of legends. In the first match, the strongest Brazilian team at the moment, FURIA, was beaten with a score of 16:7.
It should be noted right away that Monte won not only due to the brilliant game of its leader BOROS, the team, perhaps, for the first time in the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 played pretty evenly, dividing Victoria into everyone.
Yes, the key factor in the victory was Monte's confident play on one of his favorite Ancient maps, which does not yet answer the question of how difficult it will be for the team to face stronger opponents.
Fnatic
Fnatic in the first BLAST match.tv Paris Major 2023 pretty confidently dealt with Ninjas in Pyjamas on Nuke, beating the opponent with a score of 16:11. The European derby turned out to be quite stubborn, both teams showed very dense and interesting CS, but Fnatic were closer to victory. However, the first Fnatic match is on BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 is far from an indicator, because the team knows how to surprise its fans unpleasantly. The match against Monte will be a real test of real coherence and refinement for the KRIMZ squad, which, by the way, could not demonstrate its best sides in the first meeting of the tournament.
Bet
Bookmakers do not single out any of the teams in the confrontation, but there is confidence that the first victory in the final stage of a big tournament will play a cruel joke with Monte, so the bet on Fnatic's victory looks quite adequate.
For those who do not want to take too much risk, they can take a closer look at the Fnatic victory with an amazing handicap (+2.5) in rounds.
Fnatic
Monte
