Match Prediction: Eternal Fire - Imperial Esports | CS2 (CS:GO)

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We continue to review what's happening at ESL Pro League Season 19. We are still looking at the group stage, more specifically Group A.

We will be talking about the lower grid of Basket A at ESL Pro League Season 19. More specifically about the match between Eternal Fire and Imperial.

We will try to figure out which of the teams will be stronger in this match and at the end of the match will continue to participate in ESL Pro League Season 19, and who will have to say goodbye to the prospects of staying longer at the top event.

Let's get started.

Eternal Fire uniforms

We start our review of Eternal Fire vs Imperial with an analysis of the Turkish club's form. In this match, they play the first number one with odds to win at around 1.5.

The 13-team world ranking team has experienced difficulties throughout the season. Despite the huge number of matches, success has been achieved occasionally.

At the beginning of the year Eternal Fire won ESL Pro League Season 17: European Conference, thus securing their place at EPL S17. The Main Event ended miserably - only top 20 and no group.

Participated in BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR B. There they took TOP-14, which was not enough to reach the only Major of the season.

In the middle of the year, Eternal Fire showed their best form. The Turks finished in the top 4 twice, but did so at TIR-B tournaments. They broke into the top four at CCT North Europe Series #7 and Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #1.

• Eternal Fire roster: XANTARES, Calyx, MAJ3R, Wicadia, woxic.

Before the ESL Pro League Season 8 Long Round, MAJ3R's team played on CCT Central Europe and Pinnacle Cup V. Both championships ended for them on top 8.

Eternal Fire played their debut match at ESL Pro League Season 18 against Cloud9. They played as the number two and got a natural result: 0-2, but with 11 and 12 rounds respectively.

In the first match of the lower grid Eternal Fire played against 9INE. The Turks were clearly on form, as they managed to run over a pretty tough competitor without much difficulty. The match ended with a score of 2-0 in favour of Eternal Fire. As a result, the ESL Pro League Season 18 run ended very well: the team barely qualified for the play-offs of the tournament, where they managed to win two series. EF left Astralis and BIG behind, but Ledge and Natus Vincere.

EF later made the Top 16 at Roobet Cup 2023, where they finished Top 16 and Top 2 at PARI, Please. In 2024, Eternal Fire attended PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: European Qualifier B, where they placed Top 2, advancing to European RMR A.

IEM Katowice 2024 started with the Play-In stage. By the way, they passed it very easily: 13-1 against BB Team and 2-0 against Rebels Gaming allowed them to get into the group stage. In the first match of the group stage they also easily defeated Falcons (13-9; 13-6), and then showed a very cheerful CS in the match against the top-2 team of the world FaZe Clan, but Ledge were defeated on three maps (1-2). At the end of IEM Katowice 2024 Eternal Fire took the top-12 position, after which they started playing at PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: European RMR A.

At the qualifying tournament, the Turks finished in the top 8, which gave them the opportunity to qualify for PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen 2024, which is true in the first stage.

At PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen 2024 Eternal Fire are feeling very good so far. The Turks have 2 wins and 1 loss: they beat Mongolz and Pain, but lost to Heroic 0-2 in the match for the next stage. However, they succeeded in their next attempt: they defeated GL with a score of 2-1.

Eternal Fire debuted in the legends stage with a surprise win against Vitality. However, in the second round they lost to MOUZ, which brought them to 1-1 score. And then there was a real sensation: 13-1 against FaZe Clan and 2-1 score for the Turks.

Eternal Fire got into the play-offs of the tournament after the victory over Vp. The match ended with the score 2-1. However, they failed to move beyond the first round, as NaVi were stronger than the Turks and closed the series with a score of 2-0.

ESL Pro League Season 19 Eternal Fire started off with a loss against Astarlis.

Eternal Fire Mappool

The best map is Nuke. There are 4 matches and 4 wins.

Anubis (7 matches, 85% wins), Mirage (4 matches, 75% wins) are very good. Vertigo - 71% wins in 7 matches, Inferno and Overpass - 3 wins in 5 matches.

Form Imperial

We continue our match review with an analysis of Brazilian club Imperial. They are number two in this match and the odds on a win are at around 2.4.

The World 16 team spent the first half of the year at various qualifying events and TIR-2 tournaments. Among the rare results is a win at the TG Masters Spring 2023 local championship. We can also mention the failure at EPL Season 17, where Imperial finished in the top 32.

Imperial's main Milestone was the performance at American RMR B, a qualifier for BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023. There, the Brazilian club finished in the top-12. Later there was a disappointing IEM Masters Rio 2023 and top-16 there.

• Imperial line-up: VINI, HEN1, felps. noway, decoy.

Before the Long Convergence of IEM Cologne 2023, Imperial won the ESL Brazil Premier League Season 14 and finished in the top 4 at BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2023.

On top of that, Imperial have invited felps and HEN1 to join the team. The team's rookies lost their debut match at the club. They were run over by Monte, who won at Nuke 16-9. Next it was no better and as a result Cologne Brazilians took the top 20.

Later, they finished top-28 in ESL Pro League Season 18 and tried to make a name for themselves in other tournaments. They played at local championships like CBCS 2023 Season 1, Copa BetBoom, Game Arena and so on, but failed to achieve success there. Imperial looked better in the 2024 season.

So far, the main achievement of the year was winning the home PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: American RMR and making it to the Major itself. There the team went 3-2 in the Opening Stage and then won the Legends Stage 1-3, which is pretty good.

They opened ESL Pro League Season 19 with a match against FaZe Clan, where they lost 0-2, but showed their teeth.

Imperial Mapple

Imperial's best maps are Ancient and Inferno. The former has 3 wins in 4 maps, and the latter has 5 out of 7.

Don't mind playing Overpass either, where the Brazilians have 57% wins in 7 maps. Can also play Nuke with Vertigo, where they have 50% wins at 6 and 4 mapx respectively.

Do not play on Anubis.

Head-to-head history of Eternal Fire - Imperial

The teams have not played each other in the updated lineups.

Predicted result of Imperial vs Eternal Fire at ESL Pro League Season 19

In this match I expect an even game. In my opinion, Imperial and Eternal Fire are worth each other and will show us a full-fledged bo3.

Bottom line: total +2.5.