MAD Lions
2022-03-05 17:05:00
Astralis

MAD Lions vs Astralis

2022-03-05 16:52:56Posted by Petar

Yet another game we dread to talk about. MAD Lions taking on Astralis was *supposed* to be a walk in the park. How could it be anything else? We have the two-time LEC champions on the one side and the absolute worst team in the *history* of the region on the other. Any rational human being would, therefore, expect a lopsided beatdown.

Unfortunately, such a thing is far from guaranteed. Now sure, MAD *are* favored, but we can easily envision a world in which they end up losing. They're on the brink of missing out on the playoffs and could, by all means, succumb to the immense pressure that has accumulated on their shoulders. They've been dreadful ever since the split began and we just don't see them turning this ship around, unfortunately. They've found themselves at far too big of a deficit and they have no more time left to mount any kind of comeback.

A win here would definitely be a step in the right direction, but even if that happens -- and we *do* think it will -- it's probably not going to make a big enough difference. There are simply too many factors right now and most of them aren't in their control. They've lost ten games, after all, and that's not something a team can easily bounce back from. They have a 38% win rate. Dreadful, really, but it's the world we now live in, and they'll have to find a way to navigate it, both now *and* in the forthcoming Summer Split. It's not going to be easy, but we haven't lost faith just yet. They *will* pull it off eventually, but we don't expect it to happen in time for them to make the playoffs.

Then again, there's no worse team in the LEC than Astralis. They might have stepped up in the second half of the split but we're still talking about a very negligible uptick here -- a most insignificant one "surge" that hasn't resulted in anything concrete or noteworthy. They *might* pull off an upset here, but our faith *has* been reinvigorated ever so slightly with MAD taking down Vitality yesterday, so we might as well give them the nod on this one and tune in to observe the spectacle.

GamePickBookmakerOddsStakeResult
MAD Lions Pinnacle 1.43 1 Win

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