Team Liquid vs Entity Prediction: European derby with equal chances of success

The International 2022 playoffs will continue on Saturday, October 22, in Singapore. European teams Team Liquid and Entity will face each other in the second match of the second round of the lower bracket, it will be an elimination game.
The International 2022 is the main event of the year in the cyber sports discipline Dota 2. This year's top 20 teams will battle it out in Singapore from October 15-30, 2022. The prize fund of the eleventh tournament is more than 16 million dollars.

Team Liquid: is the team starting to slack?

Team Liquid lost Chinese to Aster (0-2) and interrupted their successful streak against the Chinese in this TI11, but the saddest thing for Team Liquid is that they again fell into the losers' bracket and now have to bounce back without a chance of making a mistake. In the LCQ qualification, Team Liquid managed to overcome the meat grinder of the lower bracket, but at The International 2022 the opponents are extremely tough, and you can already see how MATUMBAMAN and Co. started to lower their level of play.
In the losing group, Team Liquid happened to face their familiar opponents from Entity. It's noteworthy that the Liquids were pretty good against Fishman's team in the online regional leagues, but in the course of the regional qualification Entity simply destroyed Team Liquid. Will MATUMBAMAN get revenge on Fishman?
Team Liquid is a legendary Dota tag that has won The Internationals, but now it's interesting because this team's carry MATUMBAMAN has announced that this journey after the aegis could be his last. Team Liquid performed well in the online regional leagues, but when it came to LAN games, the play of this Swedish-Finnish squad dramatically shattered.

Let's recall all the LAN trials of the Liquids in this DPC cycle:

• ESL One Stockholm 2022 (major) - 9-12th place;
• Riyadh Masters 2022 - 9-10th place;
• PGL Arlington Major 2022 (Major) - 9-12th place;
• ESL One Malaysia 2022 - 11-12th place.

LCQ qualification and the group stage of The International 2022 showed Team Liquid's ability to break their losing streak at the LANs this year. But how far this European squad is capable of making it in the lower bracket is a question.

Entity: You can't get very far with just luck

Many experts have rated Entity very highly this year at The International 2022, but so far Fishman's squad has been pretty mediocre.
After winning the regional qualification, Team Entity made it straight into the group stage of TI11, and everyone was excited about the juicy European play that they have been showing all summer. But time after time Entity kept failing their games, losing, at times, even to the usual outsiders. The fate of Entity's continued participation in the TI11 playoffs hinged on Team Secret, that defeated Talon and allowed Entity to challenge those same Asians for the slot in the replay for the lower bracket. Fishman and Co. did their job, outscoring Talon 2-0, but that was largely thanks to an insane play by Pure's carry on Pudge.
They had to start as losers in the playoffs, with a BO1 roulette match against the Chinese RNG. The European squad was extremely lucky that the Chinese got covid, the entire squad was medicated and played out of the hotel. In the longest map in the history of The International (over 107 minutes), Entity still outplayed their opponents and went one step further.
What are Entity's chances against Team Liquid? Despite the poor performance in the last few games, Fishman and Co. have a good chance to knock MATUMBAMAN out from TI11. The opponent is familiar and doesn't need to be studied much, the main thing is to understand the draft for winning two maps against Liquid.

Head-to-head encounters

The liquids did well against Fishman in the online regional DPC leagues, beating Entity twice in the second and third round by scores of 2-1 and 2-0, respectively. But in Regional Qualifiers, Entity demolished Team Liquid, 2-0.

Expert Betting Tips

I expect three maps in this confrontation, which means you can bet on Total Over 2.5 maps at odds of 2.00 at bet365.
I want to give the overall victory to Entity which will be able to outplay the tired Team Liquid players. You can bet on the success of the Fishman’s team at odds of 2.05 at betway.
For the entire match the teams will make Over 112.5 kills, the odds on this is 1.83 at 1xbet.