In the first round of the playoffs of the ESL Pro League Season 20 LAN tournament, which takes place in Malta, the Russian team Spirit will play against FURIA from Brazil.
Spirit
The Russian team played unstable in the group stage of the tournament, but still reached the playoff stage through the lower bracket. In their last Group B match, which was on September sixth, in the final of the lower bracket of group B, Spirit won a strong–willed victory over 3DMAX from France on three cards - 6:13 Anubis (opponent's peak); 13:6 Ancient and 13:2 Nuke. In this meeting, two players showed themselves well as part of the "dragon", donk finished the match with a score of +19 in fragments, and the Ukrainian zont1x with a score of +16.
FURIA
The Brazilian team, in turn, made it to the playoffs from fourth place in Group D. In the decisive match for herself, which was the day before yesterday, FURIA confidently outplayed her compatriots from the RED Canids team in the match for survival in the tournament on two maps – 13:7 Anubis (the opponent's peak) and 13:9 Nuke. Yuurih showed himself very well in this meeting as part of FURIA, he finished the match with a score of +20 in frags.
FURIA and Spirit last played against each other on August 29 in the semifinals of the top bracket at a tournament in Belgrade. Then, at BetBoom Dacha Season 2, the Russian team won a crushing victory – 13:4 Mirage (the opponent's peak) and 13:1 Anubis.
Forecast
In this match, Spirit is considered by the bookmakers to be the undisputed favorite. However, the Russian team is still not playing very stable in Malta, and therefore this time FURIA can avoid defeat.
Spirit
