Team Liquid vs Astralis

Liquid ranked #9 from North America is clashing against Astralis ranked #1 from Denmark in the ESL Pro League Season 7 Finals that has 16 teams fighting for a prize pool of $750,000. The tournament is held in Dallas, Texas, USA (LAN).

This is a best of 5 Grand final match.

OK, so Liquid won against Grayhound 16-5, then they defeated Space Soldiers 2-0 and then lost to Astralis 0-2. Then they defeated mousesports 2-0 and later on defeated NaVi 2-0. Astralis, on the other hand, has won against OpTic 16-3, 2-0 against SK, and 2-0 against Liquid. Later on, they defeated FaZe 2-0.

Map performance for team Liquid: Cache is at 64,0% win rate, Cobblestone 64,0%, Inferno 62,7%, Mirage 57,6%, Overpass 57,3%, Train 57,3%, Dust2 51,6% and Nuke 37,1% win rate. Distribution of played maps is Mirage x158, Cobblestone x139, Cache x114, Train x110, Inferno x102, Dust2 x91, Overpass x82 and Nuke x35.

Map highlights for team Astralis: Mirage is at 69,0% win rate, Inferno 67,8%, Overpass 65,7%, Nuke 65,4%, Train 62,1%, Dust2 59,1%, Cache 57,7% and Cobblestone 20,0%. Their most played maps in descending order are Overpass x108, Mirage x100, Train x95, Inferno x90, Cache x52, Nuke x52, Dust2 x44, and Cobblestone x10.

Pistol round goes to Astralis who have 57,6% over Liquid who have 52,8%.

Stats for the last 35 matches: Liquid won 23 and lost 12 with a win ratio of 65,71% and average opponent rank of #74,29. Astralis won 27 and lost eight with a win ratio of 77,14% and average opponent rank of #39,29.

If we look closely at the Liquid matches, we can see that hey played 15 maps in May and won 11, converted in won games that is eight of them. In April they played 21 maps and won 13, turned in won games that is 10. Most of those won games were best of 1. On the other side, we have Astralis who have played 20 maps in May and won 16, converted in won games that is ten of them. In April they played 26 maps and won 18 of them, converted in games that is 14 won games.

Astralis is the first top team in this tournament so far with 1,31 rating on seven maps. Their best players are dupreeh with 1,44 rating on seven maps. Magisk with 1,32 rating, gla1ve 1,30, and device 1,30 rating. Team Liquid is the second best team with 1,12 rating on nine maps.

I mean, this is creme de la creme of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Team Liquid has proven that obtaining NAF and TACO was a good decision, and Astralis is excellent as always. I think they will utterly destroy Liquid, and that that loss against FaZe was a pure mistake. But enough what i think, let's check stats. Most-played maps on this tournament are Mirage x15, Inferno x12, Cache x9, Overpass x6, Nuke x5, Dust2 x3, Train x2. So this benefits both teams since Astralis is good on Mirage and Inferno, but Liquid is good on Inferno and Cache. These two teams played a lot of games and Astralis is winning 16 maps over Liquid who have 7. They played a few days ago, and Astralis won quite convincingly 2-0.

My bet on this match will be over Team Liquid +2,5 handicap. I firmly believe Liquid can snatch at least one map from Astralis. The final result sohuld be 3-1 for Astralis or 3-2 for Astralis.

Good luck to all who bet and don't forget to gamble responsibly!