At the LAN tournament in Malta, IEM Road to Rio 2022 Europe RMR A, the Russian team forZe will play against Sprout from Denmark.
forZeThe Russian team last played on the first of October at the CCT Central Europe Series 2 tournament. First, forZe played a confident semi–final match of the VO3 format against Into the Breach from the UK - 16:13 Dust2 (its peak) and 16:13 Inferno.
And in the evening, in the final of the forZe tournament, in the match of VO3, the European team OG was beaten in a hard struggle on three maps – 19:16 Inferno (the opponent's peak); 14:16 Dust2 and 16:11 Overpass.
SproutThe Danish team, in turn, last played on HLTV on September 27 at the Elisa Invitational Fall 2022 tournament.
In the match for reaching the playoffs in the VO3 Sprout format game, they played poorly and lost to the Bad News Bears from Kosovo on three cards - 8:16 Mirage (the opponent's peak); 16:9 Vertigo and 6:16 Nuke.
ForecastIn this match, forZe is considered a small favorite among bookmakers, which is quite fair.
The Russian team is now in much better shape, and therefore, with a competent forZe peak, the average Danish team should win.