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Team Liquid vs Team Vitality Tips & Odds – ESL Pro League Season 20

By Tit Krajnik

14 Sep 2024

Tit Krajnik 14 Sep 2024

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Team Liquid vs Team Vitality Counter-Strike betting predictions for Sunday, September 15, 2024, in the Group D upper bracket final at ESL Pro League Season 20 (19:30 CEST)
Team Liquid are priced as underdogs
Team Vitality are one of the leading tournament favourites

Team Liquid fans (Getty Images)

Team Liquid vs Team Vitality Predictions

Team Liquid and Team Vitality will clash on Sunday, September 15, in the upper bracket final in Group D at ESL Pro League Season 20. According to the latest esports betting odds, it should be a very one-sided fixture, with Liquid priced as heavy underdogs.

Team Liquid vs Team Vitality Predictions
Head to Head
Team Liquid Form
Team Liquid Squad & Team News
Team Vitality Form
Team Vitality Squad & Team News

Counter-Strike bookmakers have Team Liquid priced as 3.25 underdogs to defeat Team Vitality, who enter the series as 1.33 favourites. At this number, Vitality are expected to win 75.2% of the time, suggesting it should be a fairly straightforward series.

Team Vitality (#2) are better ranked than Team Liquid (#7)
Both teams are in great form
Vitality have not met Liquid once this year

Head to Head

This will mark the first meeting between Vitality and Liquid in 2024.

Team Liquid Form

Team Liquid have done a good job to make it to the upper bracket final at ESL Pro League Season 20, first beating ENCE (2-0) and then adding another 2-0 sweep of Virtus.pro. While Liquid haven't been properly tested in either of the two series, they have shown a lot of good things, suggesting they might be ready to take down Team Vitality.

Even before ESL Pro League, Liquid displayed good form. They won BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2024 and placed top-eight at Intel Extreme Masters Cologne 2024, proving they can compete at the highest level. However, they've yet to face Team Vitality, so it will be interesting to see how Liquid perform against one of the current hottest Counter-Strike teams in the world.

Team Liquid Squad & Team News

No roster changes for Team Liquid.

Keith "NAF" Markovic
Mareks "YEKINDAR" Gaļinskis
Russel "Twistzz" Van Dulken
Roland "ultimate" Tomkowiak
Justin "jks" Savage

Team Vitality Form

Team Vitality are one of the leading candidates to win ESL Pro League Season 20 and one of the hottest Counter-Strike teams in the world. Since the start of August, they've won BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2024 and Intel Extreme Masters Cologne 2024, accumulating eight straight wins leading into ESL Pro League Season 20, where they've yet to show signs of slowing down.

Across the first two rounds, Vitality defeated ATOX Esports and FURIA Esports without problems. While we saw Vitality drop 11 rounds against ATOX on Inferno, they've not lost more than seven across the next three, including against FURIA who are objectively stronger than ATOX, indicating some improvement.

Team Vitality Squad & Team News

Team Vitality have not announced any roster changes.

Dan "apEX" Madesclaire
Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut
Lotan "Spinx" Giladi
Shahar "flameZ" Shushan
William "mezii" Merriman

Verdict

Team Liquid v Team Vitality

Team Vitality are rightly priced as favourites for this series, yet we can't underestimate Team Liquid who have shown immense improvement over the last month. While they're not quite one of the elite CS teams yet, Liquid have posted strong performances even against FaZe Clan, which inspires some confidence.

Vitality should win, but Liquid have shown enough lately to believe they can do some damage on Sunday.

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