PSG.LGD vs Deboosters Prediction: No surprises for the Chinese team

On Friday, July 22, the third game day of the international Dota 2 tournament will be played in the UAE, where an impressive prize pool of $4,000,000 is up for grabs. PSG.LGD and Deboosters will play in one of the first wave matches of the second game day.

The Riyadh Masters 2022 is a Dota 2 LAN tournament that will take place July 20-24, 2022. The top ten teams from around the world will compete for $4,000,000. In addition to cash prizes, the teams will have an international show of strength before the U.S. majors start in early August.

PSG.LGD: An easy walk for the favorite

There's not much to say about the strength of PSG.LGD. This Chinese team will be considered the main favorite in all tournaments in which they decide to participate. This tournament on Arab soil can be considered a preparatory tournament. First of all, this is the first time since TI10 that Chinese teams participate in international battles. Secondly, the players of PSG.LGD should be on their best form before the major, because they played the Summer Regional League with their hands down, even refusing to play one of the replay matches. But they can afford it, they're in the majors, and most importantly, they got a ticket to TI11 a long time ago.

Team PSG.LGD missed the first game day of the Riyadh Masters 2022 tournament, so the game with Team Spirit will be the debut for the Chinese. We don't need to remind you that it was the CIS team that defeated Team xiao8 in the TI10 final, so this fight is fundamental for PSG.LGD.

In my opinion, PSG.LGD is now the most stable team in the world if it is motivated. It is worth realizing that the team xiao8 won the first and second DPC league in China and both regional finals that Valve organized for the Chinese region instead of the majors. During the summer tour, the team allowed itself to relax, because the main task was accomplished ahead of schedule. Even without going to the last match of the replay, the team xiao8 explained this by the fact that the team wants to focus on preparing for international starts, and here is one of them.

The composition of this team is unchanged for many years and the main intrigue in the upcoming summer international tournaments is how many times PSG.LGD will allow someone to beat themselves if anyone is capable of it now.

Deboosters: Hope for a miracle

Deboosters is a local Arabic team that often invites big European players on the eve of some big tournament. This time Malik from PuckChamp from Kazakhstan will play for the home team at the Riyadh Masters 2022. He'll be assisted by Bulgarian carry PLEB, who has never played in the top teams, so it's probably not a true "help".

If the Arab team wins at least a map against anyone, that would be fantastic. It is not clear why the organizers let such a weak team to the tournament with the world's top. Do you want to see your team? That's how Arab sheiks sponsor European Nigma. But the current Deboosters line-up looks like a fancy punching bag for an athlete and it will be beaten badly by the whole Group B.

On the first match day Deboosters faced their opponents from Team Spirit (0:2) and if in the first matchday the Arab squad eased into the salad (5:35), during the second matchday they even led in kills for a long time, but the experience of the TI10 champion had its say in the matter. The only hope for the Deboosters is if the Chinese start kicking experimental heroes.

Expert Betting Tips

On the first map, I do not expect a large number of frags, so Total Under 46.5 for 1.83.

Also, the first map will last over 32 minutes; the odds of this are 1.75.

On the second map, I also don't expect a show of frags, so Total Under 46.5 for 2.12.

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