AGO vs. Winstrike Preview & Prediction - Free 8/26 CS:GO Betting Picks
AGO and Winstrike will meet in the Group B opening match at the Eden Arena Malta Vibes Cup 9 Europe (Online) tournament. This will be their second encounter, and AGO leads 2-0. Besides them, FATE and AGF are also in the group. The competition will run until August 30th and sixteen teams will compete for a prize pool of $40,000.
AGO won three out of the last five matches and has a win rate of 62.8%. Ten days ago, they finished first at the ESEA MDL Season 33 Europe and won $12,500, and qualified for the ESL Pro League Season 12. Unfortunately, they failed to qualify for the FunSpark ULTI 2020 Europe and the IEM New York 2020 Europe tournament. In the last three months, Vertigo is their favorite map and first pick (27.0%) with 13 wins and 4 losses. They played well on Inferno and Train (70.0% 7W 3L). Their performance was 50/50 on Nuke and Duts2. They have a negative score on Mirage (43.8%), but they are happy with the fact that they won the last four times when they played on this map.
Winstrake ranked #60, has a win rate of 27.8% in the past three months. They have won only one of the previous eight matches. Abay "Hobbit" Khasenov left the squad in July, and Alexey "NickelBack" Trofimov took his place. Winstrake can boast a positive score only on Train (66.7%). On all other maps, they have a score below 50.0%; and the worst was on Nuke and Overpass (20.0%).
Pick: AGO to win (-189 @Betwinner)
AGO is the bookmaker's favorite and better-ranked team (#38). Winstrakes is in a poor series of five consecutive defeats, and with a new face on the roster, I think they have no chance to win this match. I will bet AGO to win at the Betwinner.
