Vitality vs Cloud9 Prediction: The upcoming match will be a wonderful fight for all the fans

Prediction for the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne 2023 match which will take place on August 4. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

Team Vitality finished the previous season impressively, winning the home BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 and finishing second at the BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2023 tournament. During the break between seasons, the team said goodbye to legendary player dupreeh, who decided to retire from the active roster temporarily, and in his place, another talented shooter from Israel - flameZ - joined the team.

In a slightly changed lineup, Vitality has already managed to play at BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2023, where there was a small setback in the match with NIP, but in general, the roster completed its main task and made it to the fall finals of BLAST Premier.

At the tournament in Cologne, the apEX team started their game right from the group stage. Vitality players showed their strength by beating OG (2:0) and MOUZ (2:0), but in the fight for a place in the semifinals, they lost to their rivals from G2 (1:2).

Team Cloud9 is attracting considerable attention right now. The roster, which has remained unchanged for a long time since the days of Gambit, has finally decided to make changes. C9 management created a real coup in the transfer market when players electroNic and Perfecto left NaVi to join Cloud9.

However, the Cloud9 team did not arrive at the tournament in Cologne with a full roster. Although the star rookies managed to reach Germany, player buster (who was sent to the reserves) temporarily replaced Ax1Le due to technical difficulties in obtaining a visa to Germany. Ax1Le missed the group stage of the competition but may be able to join the team in the playoffs (at the time of writing this information, there are no updates, and buster will continue to play for now).

In Cologne, the Russian team started from the group stage. Still, they lost their first match to Fnatic (1:2). Nevertheless, after that, Cloud9 players picked themselves up and successively won: over 9INE (2:1), Monte (2:0), and GamerLegion (2:1). Obviously, Cloud9 has a lot of potentials, but at the moment the team is still not fully polished and not ready to fully compete in the playoffs at such a large-scale tournament.

The match Vitality vs. Cloud9 will give a great fight to all fans at the arena in Cologne and online broadcasts, but so far, the reigning major champions look much preferable to the not-yet-fully played C9 roster.