DreamHack Masters Spring 2021 playoffs tips – 7/5/2021

ESB’s free Counter-Strike: Global Offensive betting tips for Thursday focus on the quarter-finals of DreamHack Masters Spring 2021. Here are our CS:GO betting predictions for G2 Esports vs Astralis and FURIA vs Natus Vincere.



With the departure of Nicolai “dev1ce” Reedtz to Ninjas in Pyjamas, Astralis are now left with a huge void that won’t be easy to fill. While losing a player of his calibre is worrying, we are a bit more concerned with what dev1ce’s departure means in the greater picture.

Once a team that dominated the world, Astralis are now seemingly on the brink of collapsing, with rumours suggesting dev1ce won’t be the only player to leave the prominent Danish esports organisation this year. As a result of that internal turmoil, Astralis’ performances have suffered; they have won only two out of their last six outings.

G2 Esports, on the other side, are on the rise, largely thanks to the strong performances from Nikola “NiKo” Kovać, who has been averaging a 1.15 rating for the past three months. At these odds, it’s hard to think of a reason to bet against the favourites.



Natus Vincere enter the quarter-finals after a 1-2 reverse-sweep loss to Gambit Esports in Group A finals, having previously beaten mousesports (16-14) and Virtus.pro (2-0). FURIA were slightly less convincing with their 6-16 loss to BIG in the opening round of the group stage, but they then went on to dominate the lower bracket with clean sweeps of paiN Gaming, Complexity, and Team Vitality.

FURIA and Natus Vincere last met in March, when FURIA won 2-0 (16-10, 16-14), but it was NaVi who swept the Brazilian side in all of their previous four meetings dating back to July 2019.

In their current form isn’t a lot to set these two sides apart. NaVi come off as slight favourites, but not by enough for us to consider siding with them at the offered CS:GO odds. FURIA to win at +130 is a value bet we can’t pass on.