NiP vs Natus Vincere Prediction: NaVi to win

On November 25th at 21:00, Ninjas in Pyjamas and Natus Vincere will play each other. The Swedish club does not look very confident, will they make the semifinals?

• Current HLTV ranking: #15;
• Changes over last three months: -6;
• Best map: Inferno/Vertigo – 75% in 8 maps;
• Worst map: Mirage – 17% in 6 maps.

Ninjas in Pyjamas are playing noticeably better than expected. Initially it seemed that the team will not be able to reach the current stage, having lost the first two games. But the Swedes managed to take a map against Heroic, and against OG they didn't give up a single one.

But don't overestimate Ninjas in Pyjamas either. They took a map from the Danes, but then lost both of the remaining games in a blowout and the player stats were just awful. The Swedes beat OG deservedly, but the opponent was too easy.

At the moment the level of Ninjas in Pyjamas leaves much to be desired, and most of the players play rather mediocre at the individual level.

• Current HLTV ranking: #3;
• Changes over last three months: -2;
• Best map: Nuke – 100% in 3 maps;
• Worst map: Ancient – 20% in 5 maps.

The atmosphere inside Natus Vincere is quite toxic, it's easy to see with the naked eye. For the most part, s1mple voices his discontent directly to sdy. On the one hand, this is the last tournament with sdy in the lineup, but on the other hand, Natus Vincere is unlikely to win with such interaction.

On the first day the Ukranian team more or less confidently defeated the inexperienced Brazilians from Fluxo, but on the next day they were powerless against Liquid. And there were a lot of problems. From the positive, we can only note the impeccable individual form of Alexander s1mple Kostylev, who showed great statistics and game, but otherwise all is not so rosy.

Natus Vincere has no problem fixing all their problems, though. Still, it is really hard to play against such a Liquid, and it will be much easier against the inexperienced players from NiP.

We are very unhappy with Natus Vincere in this tournament. The individual form of some players and s1mple's attitude towards sdy are questionable, but Ninjas in Pyjamas have even more problems. Even taking into account the far from best form of the Ukrainian team, still the Swedes look noticeably weaker. It also concerns the level of individual play, experience and results in recent months. The first place in the tournament for Natus Vincere is not so important, but it is unlikely that the team is going to fly out before reaching the semifinals. We think that we should be confident betting on NaVi's Handicap (-5.5) rounds for odds of 1.73 at 1xbet, and such an option can easily pass in the case of a map exchange. In this case, we want to risk and try to take Total Under (65.5) rounds for odds of 1.83 at Bet365, it is unlikely that the Swedes will be able to pick up at least one map, so you should also consider Correct Score 0-2 for 1.95 at Betway.