NIP vs. MOUZ Preview & Prediction- Free 3/11 CS: GO

This Friday, NIP and MOUZ will clash for their third match at the group stage of the ESL Pro League Season 15 tournament. The Group Stage is composed of four groups of six teams playing in a round-robin format with the best-of-three series. Group winners will advance to the quarter-finals while 2nd and 3rd placed teams in each group will go to the first round of playoffs.

NIP Team Stats and Latest Results

NIP team is ranked 8th in the world ranking and has been among the top 30 teams for 94 weeks. The Swedish team started their run at the ongoing ESL Pro League Season 15 tournament on a positive note and defeated fnatic (2:0) at the first round of the group stage. Considering their performance in past events, they finished 7-8th at the BLAST Premier World Final 2021, 7-9th at the BLAST Premier Spring Groups 2022, and 7-8th at the IEM Katowice 2022. They have attained a win rate of 47.4% over the last 3 months and won 5 out of their last 8 matches.

Map win statistics in the last 3 months show a decent performance on Vertigo (66.7%), Ancient (66.7%), and Overpass (57.1%). On the other hand, the team failed to impress on Mirage (50.0%), Nuke (37.5%), Inferno (20.0%), and Dust2 (0.0%). The team’s roster consists of REZ (1.08 player rating), Plopski (1.04), hampus (1.03), phzy (0.92), and es3tag (0.94).

MOUZ Team Stats and Latest Results

MOUZ team is ranked 13th in the world ranking and has been among the top 30 teams for 54 weeks. The team played Entropiq at the first round of the group stage in the ESL PRO tournament and lost with a score of 2:0. The European team finished 9-12th at recently concluded IEM Katowice 2022 and received $16,000. Additionally, they were placed 5-8th at the IEM Katowice 2022 Play-In and 13-16th at the IEM Winter 2021. They won 5 out of their last 8 games and have a win rate of 47.4%.

Map performance over the last 3 months shows that their best-played cards consist of Vertigo (66.7%-win rate), Ancient (66.7%), and Overpass (57.1%). They managed an average performance on Mirage (50.0%) but failed to impress on Nuke (37.5%), Inferno (20.0%), and Dust2 (0.0%). Their current line-up has dexter (0.95), torzsi (1.10), Bymas (1.03), frozen (1.12), and NBK- (0.94).

NIP vs. MOUZ H2H Record

The opponents have met 7 times. By this time, MOUZ has won twice while NIP won in 5 encounters including their last matchup at the group stage of 2022 Intel Extreme Masters Season XVI Katowice on 19th February 2022.

NIP vs. MOUZ Betting Preview

This is a definition of over 2.5 maps. At the moment, both teams are among the top 15 teams and have been playing well. When that is the case, we usually avoid betting on the winner. We expect to experience an entertaining match with a bunch of rounds on each side. This means that it could go either way, so the best prediction is over 2.5 maps.

The Pick: Over 2.5 maps.