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

By Tit Krajnik

18 Sep 2024

Tit Krajnik 18 Sep 2024

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Team Vitality vs Eternal Fire Counter-Strike betting predictions for Thursday, September 19, in the ESL Pro League Season 20 quarterfinals (19:30 CEST)
Team Vitality are heavy favourites
Eternal Fire won their last meeting with Vitality

Counter-Strike Global Offensive Vitality

Counter-Strike Vitality (Getty Images)

Team Vitality vs Eternal Fire Predictions

Team Vitality and Eternal Fire are set to meet on Thursday, September 19, in the ESL Pro League Season 20 quarterfinals. The two teams met just once before this year when Eternal Fire won, but according to the esports betting odds, Vitality should have an easy time getting revenge.

Team Vitality vs Eternal Fire Predictions
Head to Head
Team Vitality Form
Team Vitality Squad & Team News
Eternal Fire Form
Eternal Fire Squad & Team News

Team Vitality are 1.28 favourites with the top Counter-Strike bookmakers to defeat Eternal Fire who are 3.60 underdogs to come out ahead in this series. This is not too shocking, as Vitality have looked excellent so far and are still one of the leading candidates to win the tournament.

Team Vitality (#1) are higher ranked than Eternal Fire (#10)
Team Vitality are 3-0
Eternal Fire have proven to be highly competitive

Head to Head

Eternal Fire and Team Vitality last met in March, then the Turks won.

Eternal Fire 13-10 Team Vitality – March 21, 2024

Team Vitality Form

Team Vitality were billed as one of the main candidates to win ESL Pro League Season 20 and they're now just three series away from accomplishing that feat, which should come easily given their bracket.

Vitality kicked off their campaign with a near-perfect run through Group D, where they bested ATOX Esports (2-0), FURIA Esports (2-0), and Team Liquid (2-1) to secure a direct bye into the quarterfinals. And while they've had a slow start, Vitality started to ramp up, making easy work of Liquid after dropping Anubis (10-13).

Unsurprisingly, Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut has been the leading factor in Vitality's success, averaging the tournament's third-highest performance rating at 1.41 across seven maps ahead of Dan "apEX" Madesclaire at 1.26.

All players but Shahar "flameZ" Shushan have been posting better-than-average ratings in ESL Pro League Season 20, yet even the Israeli player has done well with 1.05.

Team Vitality Squad & Team News

No roster changes for Team Vitality.

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

Eternal Fire Form

Eternal Fire have done surprisingly well in Malta. Even though they failed to win Group A – following a 0-2 loss to Natus Vincere – the Turks performed well in their wins against FlyQuest, Sangal Esports, and The MongolZ on Tuesday.

While there is no denying that Eternal Fire earned their spot in the quarterfinals, it is also important to note that they've yet to defeat an elite-tier Counter-Strike team. Their only clash with a more formidable opponent (NaVi) ended in a 0-2 loss, so it is fair to question whether Eternal Fire have what it takes to do well against Vitality.

Eternal Fire Squad & Team News

No roster changes for Eternal Fire.

İsmailсan "XANTARES" Dörtkardeş
Buğra "Calyx" Arkın
Engin "MAJ3R" Küpeli
Ali "Wicadia" Haydar Yalçın
Özgür "woxic" Eker

Verdict

Team Vitality v Eternal Fire

Eternal Fire have made it further than expected, and while they've earned their spot in the quarterfinals, their journey should end here. Team Vitality are the current hottest Counter-Strike esports team in the world and a tier above Eternal Fire in all aspects of the game.

Eternal Fire have a better map win rate on Anubis, but knowing Vitality don't play the map often, it will likely be banned. Inferno also favours Eternal Fire, who hold an 83% win rate on the map. But we have to consider their win percentage is inflated as EF have mainly beaten weaker teams on the map.

There are few reasons to side with Eternal Fire, even at the current betting odds.

Vitality -1.5 Maps

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