{"id":21642,"date":"2025-02-20T17:44:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/?p=21642"},"modified":"2025-02-21T17:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T17:04:02","slug":"themongolz-vs-astralis-quarter-final-prediction-pgl-cluj-napoca-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/cs2-predictions\/themongolz-vs-astralis-quarter-final-prediction-pgl-cluj-napoca-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"TheMongolZ vs Astralis &#8211; Quarter-final Prediction &#8211; PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Match Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The rising young team <strong>TheMongolZ <\/strong>will have to meet an experienced Danish team, Astralis, in the<strong> quarter-final<\/strong> of <strong>PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 <\/strong>to fight for the semi-final spot in a single-elimination bracket with no second chance. The last time these two teams met each other was at <strong>YaLLa Compass 2024<\/strong>, and back then, <strong>TheMongolZ <\/strong>won with a<strong> score of 2-1 <\/strong>and the third map was a rollercoaster with a few overtimes played before it ended up with a <strong>score of 22-19<\/strong>. Now, let\u2019s get a deeper look into these two teams, and we will make our prediction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Last Heads-up Match Result and Players Statistics<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"313\" height=\"235\" src=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/themoast-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21648\" style=\"width:313px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/themoast-2.png 313w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/themoast-2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/themoast-2-150x113.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"377\" src=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/themoasti-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/themoasti-2.png 640w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/themoasti-2-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/themoasti-2-150x88.png 150w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/themoasti-2-450x265.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">TheMongolZ vs. Astralis &#8211; YaLLa Compass 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current Team and Players Form<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">TheMongolZ<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019re one of the youngest teams on a big scene with the youngest players, but it doesn\u2019t look like it whenever it comes to play. Having an experienced in-game leader like <strong>\u2018bLitz\u2019 <\/strong>definitely helps young players, and they seem to work very well together. In the tournament they played before this, they also made it to the <strong>playoff stage<\/strong>, and they seem to be one of the top 10 teams in the world. <strong>\u2018Senzu\u2019, <\/strong>who couldn\u2019t find his game at the previous tournament, now looks completely different. For every match they played at this tournament, he delivered and led the scoreboards. At the same time, their clutch star <strong>\u2018Techno4K\u2019 <\/strong>and sniper player <strong>\u2018910\u2019 <\/strong>seem to be consistently good, bringing their impact from match to match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Astralis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019ve been looking shaky for a long time already, and they still do. They have a good roster, but it doesn\u2019t seem to work how they expected it to so far. Maybe it\u2019s time for them to find some consistency, at least, but as of now, it\u2019s their star player <strong>\u2018dev1ce\u2019 <\/strong>who delivers most of the time. It all depends on whether he is on a good day while the performance of other players from <strong>Astralis <\/strong>is like a coin flip. You never know if they\u2019re going to deliver or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">910 is coming for cadiaN<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caspercadiaN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@caspercadiaN<\/a> take awp , im coming.<\/p>&mdash; ninetencs (@ninetencs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ninetencs\/status\/1892342838236520513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 19, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Match Prediction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on everything we mentioned above, and the only advantage that Astralis might have here is their experience on a big stage, we think that TheMongolZ showed us enough recently to believe that they\u2019re one of the top teams currently and can take down anyone. We think that <strong>TheMongolZ will win<\/strong> this match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Can <\/em><strong><em>TheMongolZ <\/em><\/strong><em>repeat the success of their last match against <\/em><strong><em>Astralis, <\/em><\/strong><em>or will it be <\/em><strong><em>Astralis <\/em><\/strong><em>this time to take their revenge? We will have to see it this <\/em><strong><em>Friday <\/em><\/strong><em>at <\/em><strong><em>12:00 CET<\/em><\/strong><em>!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don\u2019t know where to bet on this match, you can check out&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/betting\/best-cs2-betting-sites-for-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">our list of top betting sites<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Match Overview The rising young team TheMongolZ will have to meet an experienced Danish team, Astralis, in the quarter-final of PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 to fight for the semi-final spot in a single-elimination bracket with no second chance. The last time these two teams met each other was at YaLLa Compass 2024, and back then, TheMongolZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":21643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-21642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs2-predictions","8":"tag-cs2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21700,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21642\/revisions\/21700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}