IEM Chengdu 2025 Semifinals betting tips – Saturday, November 8

The Intel Extreme Masters 2025 semifinal clashes are set for Saturday, November 8, when Team Falcons face the high-flying FURIA, and MOUZ and Team Vitality meet for the 11th time this season.

Featuring four world-class teams, Saturday’s games are bound to see fireworks and offer a couple of excellent Counter-Strike 2 betting opportunities to explore for esports fans.

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MOUZ vs TEAM VITALITY

MOUZ and Team Vitality will clash on Saturday for the 11th time this season and the first since the Group B semifinals, when MOUZ edged out a 2-1 win.

It was a highly competitive game that ended in a 22-19 victory for MOUZ on Inferno, after they dominated Train 13-3 and lost Nuke 8-13. Since that defeat, Vitality have crushed Lynn Vision Gaming and G2 Esports, but needed three maps to edge past Astralis, who outperformed the Bees on Nuke 16-14.

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Team Vitality remain the most successful team of the season, but their results of late have been less stable. Even earlier this tournament, they dropped a map against Virtus.pro, struggled a bit too much against G2 Esports, who played with their coach, and Vitality’s showing on Nuke against Astralis does not inspire much confidence either.

MOUZ have historically struggled against Team Vitality, but they bested Dan “apEX” Madesclaire and his crew earlier this week and should not be priced as +120 underdogs for the rematch.

TEAM FALCONS vs FURIA ESPORTS

The best Counter-Strike 2 betting sites have Team Falcons priced as firm favorites to defeat FURIA and take one step closer to their third big event trophy of the season. Beating FURIA, however, will be easier said than done.

Team Falcons have cruised through the group stage, sweeping TYLOO, Team Spirit, and Astralis. Meanwhile, FURIA bested Lynn Vision Gaming and G2 Esports, but narrowly lost to MOUZ in Group B. Since then, they’ve added a clean 2-0 victory against The MongolZ in the quarterfinals.

A lot of FURIA’s success in this tournament is thanks to the excellent form of Danil “molodoy” Golubenko and Kaike
“KSCERATO” Cerato, both averaging the tournament’s second-highest rating (1.36), behind Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov at 1.59.

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However, while Team Falcons have better-performing players, FURIA boasts a deep map pool with better win rates on Inferno (62% vs 45%), Train (67% vs 40%), and Overpass (85% vs 0%), making them formidable opponents.

FURIA are in excellent form and, as proven in September, are capable of taking down Team Falcons. At plus money, the Brazilian squad are worth a bet.