What to expect from Liquid v. MOUZ

MOUZ are one of the world's best teams at the moment while Liquid are still looking like a team that needs to iron out the kinks. Yes, wins of FURIA and Monte have helped get themselves into the playoff picture, but neither series was an actual convincing win. Liquid lost a map to the Brazilians while they squeeked by the European roster. MOUZ, on the other hand, took care of business and look to be in a much more advantageous position heading into today's matchup

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Liquid's Kinky Business

Liquid is far from being their perfect selves. The squad lost a map to FURIA and could have easily lost 0-2 to Monte had things not gone their way. There are always a few kinks to iron out and this international squad need to do it sooner rather than later as they look towards the upcoming Shanghai Major cycle.

skullz is one of the worst-performing players at Pro League so far
Twistzz and NAF are dragging this team kicking and screaming
YEKINDAR is finally finding his feet

MOUZ's continued dominance

It's almost boring at this point. MOUZ go into the matchup, MOUZ are favored, MOUZ comfortably win a game. They just keep doing it over and over again and again. 2nd in Chengdu, Top 8 in Copenhagen, current reigning Pro League champions. Give it a rest already, let someone else have some success and fun.

jimpphat and Brollan are some of the best performing players right now
torzsi is critical in opening up T-side rounds
Map choice will be the decider for today

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Previous Matchups

These two squads played once before with their current lineups, just right before at IEM Chengdu 2024. MOUZ came away with a clean 2-0 series win.

Likely Vetoes

The map vetoes certainly go in favor of MOUZ in this way. Mirage is one of the Europeans best and they are comfortably better than Liquid on their best. IT's going to be tight.

Liquid ban Vertigo
MOUZ ban Anubis
Liquid pick Ancient
MOUZ pick Mirage
Decider is Nuke.

ESL Pro League Season 19

Bo3

MOUZ

2 - 0

Liquid

All maps

MOUZ	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating 2.0
Kamil 'siuhy' Szkaradek	30 - 24	+6	84.1	86.4%	1.35
Dorian 'xertioN' Berman	36 - 31	+5	87.0	68.2%	1.20
Jimi 'Jimpphat' Salo	26 - 24	+2	70.8	79.5%	1.11
Ludvig 'Brollan' Brolin	30 - 28	+2	73.0	81.8%	1.10
Ádám 'torzsi' Torzsás	27 - 29	-2	57.0	70.5%	0.92

Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating 2.0
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken	36 - 32	+4	88.8	77.3%	1.29
Keith 'NAF' Markovic	33 - 25	+8	78.6	79.5%	1.18
Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis	29 - 31	-2	77.0	63.6%	1.02
Casper 'cadiaN' Møller	18 - 27	-9	53.1	56.8%	0.75
Felipe 'skullz' Medeiros	19 - 35	-16	46.0	68.2%	0.67