{"id":21652,"date":"2025-02-20T17:46:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/?p=21652"},"modified":"2025-02-21T17:03:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T17:03:58","slug":"faze-vs-saw-quarter-final-prediction-pgl-cluj-napoca-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/cs2-predictions\/faze-vs-saw-quarter-final-prediction-pgl-cluj-napoca-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"FaZe vs SAW &#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>One of the best teams in the world, <strong>FaZe, <\/strong>is to face off against Portuguese team <strong>SAW <\/strong>in the <strong>quarter-final<\/strong> match of <strong>PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025<\/strong>. The last time these two teams met each other was at this tournament, but in a<strong> Group Stage<\/strong>, and <strong>FaZe <\/strong>won with a<strong> score of 2-0<\/strong>. Now it&#8217;s a single-elimination <strong>Playoff Stage, <\/strong>and this time, the loss for any of these two teams will cost much more than the recent match they played, so they will have to give their all here. Now, let&#8217;s get a deeper view of the 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\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"315\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fazesaws-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fazesaws-1.png 315w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fazesaws-1-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fazesaws-1-150x110.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"643\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fazesawsi.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fazesawsi.png 643w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fazesawsi-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fazesawsi-150x87.png 150w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fazesawsi-450x262.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">FaZe vs. SAW &#8211; Group Stage &#8211; PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025<\/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\">FaZe<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Since they lost one of their best players, <strong>&#8216;ropz&#8217;, <\/strong>and got <strong>&#8216;EliGE&#8217; <\/strong>instead, they were looking somewhat shaky, but obviously, it needed time to see what they&#8217;re capable of with the new roster. Here at this tournament, it gets better for them, and <strong>&#8216;EliGE&#8217; <\/strong>is now playing as a star, just as he was expected, as he is one of the best players in the world. Now, it&#8217;s not only one player delivering. It also seems that <strong>&#8216;frozen&#8217;, <\/strong>who used to be a star player but then lost his form, is also back. At this tournament, he was leading the scoreboards together with <strong>&#8216;EliGE&#8217;, <\/strong>which is a great sign of a team&#8217;s progress, and under the leadership of one of the most experienced in-game leaders&#8217; <strong>karrigan&#8217; <\/strong>this team might get back to being the best team in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SAW<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>By surprising everyone, they made it from a<strong> 0-2 score<\/strong> at the<strong> Group Stage<\/strong> by winning three games in a row. So, one thing for sure is that they&#8217;re not the guys who will give up at any point. But other than that, from the recent results, it didn&#8217;t seem like this team is going anywhere, and it might have been just a time wonder, as it happens from time to time in <strong>Counter-Strike<\/strong>. So it is hard to tell what form they&#8217;re in or how they will do in the future; there&#8217;s no distance to judge from, but just one good <strong>Group Stage<\/strong> run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">frozen couldn\u2019t believe their group stage results<\/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\">Aint no fcking way we went 3-0 in groups<\/p>&mdash; David \u010cer\u0148ansk\u00fd (@FROZENNcs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FROZENNcs\/status\/1891145322824364078?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 16, 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>As we mentioned above, there&#8217;s no good reason to think that <strong>SAW <\/strong>will win this game since they&#8217;re a less experienced team here. It&#8217;s a big stage, which also doesn&#8217;t give any advantage against a team like <strong>FaZe<\/strong>; it&#8217;s the other way around. We think that <strong>FaZe will win<\/strong> this match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Can <\/em><strong><em>SAW <\/em><\/strong><em>make another miracle and take the semi-final spot off of <\/em><strong><em>FaZe, <\/em><\/strong><em>or will <\/em><strong><em>FaZe <\/em><\/strong><em>take it as they did in a <\/em><strong><em>Group Stage<\/em><\/strong><em>? We will have to see it this <\/em><strong><em>Friday <\/em><\/strong><em>at <\/em><strong><em>18:00 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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Match Overview One of the best teams in the world, FaZe, is to face off against Portuguese team SAW in the quarter-final match of PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025. The last time these two teams met each other was at this tournament, but in a Group Stage, and FaZe won with a score of 2-0. Now it&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":21657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-21652","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\/21652","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=21652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21699,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21652\/revisions\/21699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}