Hard Legion vs. SG.Pro Preview & Prediction - Free CS:GO Betting Picks 7/17

Hard Legion and SG.Pro will face each other in the Group D opening match of the Eden Arena: Malta Vibes week 3. The online CS:GO tournament will see sixteen teams competing for a $40,000 prize pool. The first-placed team receives $25,000 in prize money.

Hard Legion’s Russian CS:GO roster is ranked 31st in the world and has shown impressive results in the past three months. The team counts Krad as one of its star players with a 1.12 rating and extremely timely pushes through smokes. Hard Legion has had mixed results lately, partly due to the roster’s recent change. The team parted ways with the coach, allowing its players more freedom but lacking the strategic aspect to their gameplay.

SG.Pro is ranked 64th in the world and has some relatively inexperienced Russian CS:GO players. The team recently upset forZe and sAw, but has lost its match to HellRaisers, forZe (a different match) and ALTERNATE aTTaX. While the team plays a good spread of maps, its win-rate on these maps is very low signalling a potential scope for improvement.

Pick: Hard Legion ML (-146 @ Pinnacle)

I am taking Hard Legion to win this match. Their team has a very high skill ceiling and continues to show decent progress on the tactical playsytle.