Team Secret vs. sAw Preview & Prediction - Free CS:GO Betting Picks 7/9

Team Secret and sAw will face off against each other in the upper bracket round 3 of the ESEA Season 34: Advanced Division - Europe. The ESEA Season 34: Advanced Division - Europe has fifty-seven teams competing in a round-robin league format. All matches are best-of-one matches while the playoffs feature a double-elimination format.

Team Secret Preview

Team Secret has a European squad, but the team is not a top-tier team yet. In fact, Team Secret is ranked 61st and is still struggling to defeat some well-established teams in the scene. Mirage is the team’s best map and the team’s performance on this map relies on excellent T-side strategies. Israeli player, anarkez has been a standout performer for the team. The player has a 1.08 rating and deals an average of 72 damage per round. His positioning puts him in the right places to take down unsuspecting opponents. Team Secret has a decent map pool. The only map where the team is weak is Vertigo, but the players make it a point to veto this map every chance that they get.

sAw Preview

The 38th ranked sAw features a Portuguese CS:GO roster and its lineup has been together for a very long time. The stability of the lineup and the team coordination result in consistent performances by the team. They finished the group stage of the league with a 12-4 score. Their only defeated were against better ranked opponents, although sAw has also had its fair share of upset victories. The team defeated ALTERNATE aTTaX and AGF recently. The team also defeated Illuminar in three maps in their most recent match.

Pick: sAw ML (-248 @ Pinnacle)

These two teams last faced each other in May during the BLAST Rising CS:GO online tournament. Team Secret won the series with a 2-0 score; however, the team has been struggling to find the same form ever since. I am taking sAw to win this match. While they lost their last head-to-head match against Team Secret, the team has shown significant improvements over the past few months. Team Secret won its latest match against LDLC, however, this victory was partly due to LDLC’s miss plays as much as it was about Team Secret’s form.