Natus Vincere vs FaZe Clan: what are FaZe up to?

On June 16, Natus Vincere and Faze Clan will play in the BLAST Premier Spring Final 2021. The Faze Clan has been resting for the last two weeks and could prepare for the tournament in peace. How the NAVI will approach the first match in shape and whether they will be able to get the long-awaited victory after a poor performance at the last tournament.

Natus Vincere has played four tournaments in the past three and a half months. Once the team managed to win first place, once fifth, once fifth-sixth, and once took only 9th-12th place. Gambit Esports, meanwhile, held twice as many tournaments during the same period. It is not clear whether such long pauses in games help the team, after all, the last tournaments were mostly failures, although it is worth admitting that before that NAVI showed good results.

Now the team had two weeks of rest and could prepare well for the tournament, in addition, the opponent in the first match got pretty easy.

It is not yet known what Natus Vincere did with Ancient, how well the guys were able to prepare this map. In this confrontation both teams don't play Vertigo, both haven't played a single match on Ancient yet and if NAVI won't waste their ban on Vertigo, they can calmly remove Ancient and avoid unnecessary worries that Faze prepared this very map against them. On all other maps, the Faze Clan will only have a chance to win in Mirage, which is far from ideal for Born To Win. But NAVI's superiority in individual skill should affect even this map.

I don't remember when Faze Clan started it, but for an unbelievably long time the organization can't build a competent transfer policy. They take superstars, then experienced old guys at the end of their career, then young guys, and now pro-scene middles. Faze tried all the options and we have to admit that from the last transfers only Broky is unquestionable.

Now the team has brought back olofmeister, once again, and this replacement does not look like salvation for Faze. The legendary Swede has not performed fully for a long time, last year he came as a substitute for an indefinite period. His individual skill may raise big questions, which is quite natural. And beside him there's rain and karrigan, who also have problems with shooting lately. Yes, and Twistzz doesn't always play consistently, and he often gets his stats on the opponent's eco. In the decisive rounds, he does not look the best. He has a small chance on Mirage, but on the rest of the maps, he has to lose by a landslide. They've lost eight of their last ten matches, only FURIA and ENCE could win, and in the last match, they even lost to Sprout. I don't think the arrival of olof will lead their team out of the crisis.

Natus Vincere looks like unconditional favorites in this match. The guys should have no problem winning, Faze does not help the breaks between official games, the team makes strange substitutions, which, in my opinion, do not strengthen the team in any way. Plus the same rain has noticeably given up and is severely lacking.

Bookmakers offer odds of 2.10 on the victory of Natus Vincere with a handicap (-1.5), which looks like a good option. For the more risky ones, a bet on Natus Vincere victory for odds 1.29 or FaZe clan victory for odds 2.55 will do.