Team Liquid vs. NRG Prediction on July 28, 2023

Match info

When Team Liquid face NRG this Friday, July 28, in the League Championship Series 2023 Summer for League of Legends (LoL), they’ll have the opportunity to demonstrate their title credentials. The match will begin at 2 p.m. local time (PDT) at Riot Games Arena in Los Angeles, California, USA. It counts toward the Upper Bracket Quarterfinals.

Meeting statistics

With a 56% victory rate (10-8), Liquid finished the LCS 2023 Summer regular season in fourth place, which isn’t the best performance. But this jointly headquartered team from the United States and the Netherlands is one of the playoffs’ most underappreciated groups and a sleeping behemoth.

The League’s best performance metrics go exactly to Team Liquid, who had a +2,241 gold differential after 15 minutes. The second-best team on that list and the favorite to win the LCS, Cloud9, has a +1,226 GD@15, to put things into perspective. Additionally, Liquid hold the highest first tower rate (77.8%), Drake control (63.9%), average towers destroyed (7.6), Herald control (72.2%), and overall damage per minute (2,542) rankings.

Liquid’s track record against top teams isn’t great; during the last week of the split, they suffered defeats to the Golden Guardians and Evil Geniuses. But TL have everything they need to go far and possibly win the LoL Series.

NRG, on the other hand, is one of the League’s most overrated teams. Their performance stats are pretty bad, and their winning record versus the top LCS teams is the only thing keeping them from being written off as absolute underdogs by LCS betting sites.

The “giant killers“, NRG, have defeated most top-five opponents this split, including Cloud9 and Golden Guardians in the last two weeks of the LCS 2023 Summer split. They have, however, also lost to weaker opponents like Immortals, 100 Thieves, TSM, and Dignitas.

NRG is an intriguing underdog option because it frequently outperforms stronger opponents, but taking a best-of-one and winning a best-of-three are two very different things.

Match analytics

If nothing unexpected happens, Team Liquid should easily defeat NRG. We predict Maps Handicap – Handicap 1 (Liquid) -1.5 at odds of 1.95 on SOL Casino.

Results of the forecast

Forecast failed. Team Liquid vs. NRG 1:3