forZe take down Virtus.pro for second win at Pro League

22-8-2021 20:41

Dzhami "⁠Jame⁠" Ali's team remains winless in the tournament.

FORZE have won the CIS bout against Virtus.pro 2-1, giving Andrey "⁠Jerry⁠" Mekhryakov's squad their second victory in ESL Pro League Season 14 group B. They let Dust2 slip from their grasp after an 11-8 advantage but took Mirage and Overpass convicingly to claim the series victory.

"How Virtus.pro approach the Dust2 CT side is still a mystery to me," Jerry admitted in the post-match interview, explaining that their plan to target Sanjar "⁠SANJI⁠" Kuliev on Long didn't work out as intended.

Nonetheless, the all-Russian side was clearly the better team across the BO3, handing Virtus.pro their second defeat of the tournament and putting one of the favorites for the group in danger of missing out from bracket play. Virtus.pro joins G2 at the bottom of the group, the two top-5 teams struggling in the event so far.

Wins over Complexity and Virtus.pro put forZe in contention for playoffs

Jerry fragged out as FORZE rolled over Virtus.pro on Mirage, the Russian side extending their win streak on the map to 13 with a 16-7 on the opener. Their in-game leader topped the server with a 1.86 rating and nine opening kills, while Mareks "⁠YEKINDAR⁠" Gaļinskis went negative in K-D despite 101.7 ADR.

Virtus.pro looked better on the second map, Dust2, but Evgenii "⁠FL1T⁠" Lebedev's antics stopped them from running away with the half. The Russian rifler went 15K-6D in the first half and his team went up 11-8 following the second pistol, but FORZE struggled in buy rounds. Jame picked them apart and Virtus.pro looked too comfortable as they completed the comeback, 16-13.

On Overpass, Virtus.pro was constantly a few steps behind. Their 2-0 lead after the CT pistol was canceled out by FORZE who went 8-2 across the next 10 rounds, taking control of the map. The half ended 9-6 for FORZE, who closed out the game on the wings of dialed-in Aleksandr "⁠zorte⁠" Zagodyrenko.

ESL Pro League Season 14Best of 3

Virtus.pro

Matchpage

22nd August 2021

FORZE

Mirage

Dust2

Overpass

Virtus.pro	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Dzhami 'Jame' Ali Jame	51 - 43	+8	65.0	72.5%	1.07
Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis YEKINDAR	44 - 54	-10	79.8	70.0%	0.98
Timur 'buster' Tulepov buster	46 - 49	-3	66.1	68.8%	0.97
Aleksei 'Qikert' Golubev Qikert	41 - 54	-13	57.2	62.5%	0.81
Sanjar 'SANJI' Kuliev SANJI	34 - 56	-22	54.5	60.0%	0.71

FORZE	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Aleksandr 'zorte' Zagodyrenko zorte	60 - 37	+23	77.3	85.0%	1.29
Evgenii 'FL1T' Lebedev FL1T	52 - 41	+11	76.7	78.8%	1.16
Andrey 'Jerry' Mekhryakov Jerry	53 - 48	+5	72.6	71.2%	1.10
Almaz 'almazer' Asadullin almazer	46 - 45	+1	63.5	71.2%	1.02
Aleksandr 'KENSI' Gurkin KENSI	45 - 47	-2	62.1	72.5%	0.95

This result sees FORZE tie OG for the top of the group with two wins, with SINNERS hoping to join the flawless club after their match against Complexity which kicks off at 20:30 .

Group B

TEAM

forza numba one

2021-08-22 20:42

VP OVERRATED

EZ4ALEKSI

2021-08-22 20:43

If vp g2 and comps not make it out of a group lmao

2021-08-22 20:44

1 reply

Col won’t be a surprise and with g2 roster it is always a possibility

2021-08-23 10:09

65 adr and positive kd. Jame rly took the saving to the next level. YEKINDAR needs to leave this team and save himself from this bot.

2021-08-22 20:48

7 replies

j0me is bot

2021-08-22 20:51

G2 arent better than them either

4 replies

At least G2 have intetesting games. VP games are just unwachable, garbage.

2021-08-22 20:53

3 replies

0-2 vs sinners "interestink"

2021-08-22 22:05

2 replies

i used to watch matches while i afk something, but when VP is playing im afking the match and doing the other thing.

2021-08-22 22:20

Nt m0mi

2021-08-22 22:22

Yekindar isn't really much better for this team in the last 5 months. Jame saves too much and doesn't try clutches,Yekindar dies way too much without impact. He also can't go anywhere if he wants similar money,Navi and Gambit don't need him.

2021-08-22 21:02

Mantuu Poland or Englando?

2021-08-22 20:50

5 replies

polish pride

2021-08-22 20:58

Why do i keep seeing brit flag on streams tho?

2021-08-22 21:00

He's Polish and British

2021-08-22 21:05

no he's 100% polish but lives in uk since he was a kid

2021-08-22 21:37

Sorry I should have specified citizenship, but yes you are correct both his parents are polish and he was born in Poland

2021-08-22 22:04

bye bye g2

VP needs a rebuild at this point,at least 2 players need to get replaced. Forze will rise tho,they started playing well in the last months of last season and Jerry is easily one of the smartest players in the game

2021-08-22 20:59

Glad Astralis didn't listen to you imagine rebuilding after a couple of LAN loses. Maybe in the future but it's too soon for that.

2021-08-23 02:42

The VP GM said there will be changes if they don't make the major,and it will be very hard to make the major. Buster and Qikert have regressed too much since 2019,even when VP was doing well this year it was on the backs of Yekindar and Jame.

2021-08-23 12:20

VP need a new IGL and system

2021-08-22 21:19

Bye Sanji...

2021-08-22 21:28

Jame too bad , whole team dies and he stands holding his prick

2021-08-22 21:33

Should have been Renegades :(

2021-08-22 21:54

With 1-2 wins and last place in the groups? Mhm

2021-08-23 02:30

forZe is looking great, they are proving that they can still be this Tier 2 team with upset potential. As I said before, VP won't be consistent and good until they will basically use one player as a AWP dropper to AWPer whose impact isn't that huge either. It's just not worth it imo. It's not like they have one of the best AWPers in the world in their team.

2021-08-23 14:10