Eternal Fire vs Team Falcons Prediction: Eternal Fire remains an unstable team

Prediction for the match between Eternal Fire and Team Falcons which will take place on January 19. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

Eternal Fire

The Turks said goodbye to Calyx in the off-season and took jottAAA, a riffler from Sangal Esports, in his place. Last year, jottAAA and the previous team played at the European RMR to Shanghai Major, went to ESL Pro League Season 20, but more often participated at the dash-2.5 level at tournaments from CCT, RES Regional and ESL Challenger. But the management of Eternal Fire decided to give the young Turk an opportunity in the best team in the country and also top-15 HLTV.

In the opening match of the season, Eternal Fire destroyed Fluxo (2:0) without any intrigue. Against the Brazilians all the old core of the team turned on: XANTARES and Wicadia habitually scored a lot of damage, MAJ3R collected frags on the server, woxic turned on as needed.

The Turkish team left conflicting impressions in 2024. On the one hand, she won a major CCT Season 1 Global Finals online tournament, reached the finals of ESL Pro League Season 20 and BetBoom Dacha Belgrade 2024 #2, and played in the quarterfinals of the Copenhagen Major. The combination of such achievements allowed the Turks to establish themselves in the top 10 of HLTV and stay in the elite for a long time. But at the same time, Eternal Fire could not make the playoffs of the dash-1 tournaments on a regular basis and missed the majors in Shanghai. Eternal Fire has potential even for top 5 HLTV and LAN-tournaments, if not only XANTARES will shine in the most important matches.

Team Falcons

The Falcons want to get back for old defeats. Team Falcons has completely renewed the roster, the current five looks as follows: NiKo, Magisk, kyxsan, degster, TeSeS. The core of the team moved from Heroic, who made the playoffs at the Shanghai Major. NiKo - top-4 2024 and one of the strongest rifflers of today. Magisk is a four-time major champion for Astralis and Team Vitality. 

Team Falcons spent a lot of money to create a team around NiKo and tried to put together the most organic roster possible. Firstly, absolutely everyone on the team can shoot, even kyxsan (he never dropped off in Heroic in terms of shooting). Secondly, there is a talented sharpshooter degster, who may be inferior to m0NESY in potential, but with his skill set is capable of helping NiKo curate games. Or TeSeS will take over that role: in 2024, he came out of the shadows and started to decide the outcome of cards in Heroic more often. But there are some serious disadvantages: zonic will rework the game system to their own liking, while the trio kyxsan/degster/TeSeS have already formed a view on all maps in CS2 and they could adopt the whole structure from Heroic.

The Falcons also had an impressive roster in terms of names, but a decline began in the spring that proved impossible to stop. The organisation has already lost a year of time, invested heavily again in the transfer window, and with NiKo definitely wants to claim the Tier-1 titles.

Expert Betting Tips

Eternal Fire remains an unstable team at the tier-1 level: it can take them out in two maps, but it can show nothing. It makes no sense to judge Team Falcons on the basis of one game, especially since ENCE twice took the Falcons to extra rounds. We believe that both teams will make mistakes, and there is a high probability that the outcome of the maps will be decided in the last rounds.

W2 for 1.89 

W2 for 1.72