Movistar Riders continue good run of form with victory over G2 at IEM Cologne

7-7-2022 15:01

The Spaniards keep pushing the envelope with an opening victory in IEM Cologne’s group of death.

Movistar Riders continue to turn heads after winning ESL Challenger Valencia against Outsiders and clearing the IEM Cologne Play-In with two victories over MIBR and Vitality, this time with an opening group stage victory against G2 in Cologne.

The Spaniards are now through to the group of death’s upper bracket quarter-final on Friday at 19:30 , where they will play for a spot in the playoffs against the victor of ENCE vs. Vitality. On the other hand G2 are now in a precarious spot, as they will play the loser of the aforementioned series for survival in the tournament.

SunPayus was a thorn in G2’s side throughout the series

The series kicked off on Movistar Riders’ Vertigo, but it was G2 who got ahead after winning the first pistol round on the CT side. The lead didn’t last as it was the Spaniards who set the pace early to take a 3-7 lead. G2 brought it back to within one, but a big three-kill round by David "⁠dav1g⁠" Granado Bermudo on a pistol buy secured the lead at the half for his team, who went on to take the final round of the half to go up by two.

Alvaro "⁠SunPayus⁠" Garcia, who had a Dzhami "⁠Jame⁠" Ali-like performance with only four deaths in the first half after picking up the AWP, continued to bring down the hammer on the CT side as the Riders took a five round lead, 13-8.

Nemanja "⁠huNter-⁠" Kovač did everything in his hands to get his team back in the game with a strong performance as G2 got to within one despite Ilya "⁠m0NESY⁠" Osipov not showing up, but once again dav1g became the hero for the Riders with a four-kill round to get Riders up 14-12, which the Spaniards were able to build upon to close their pick out 16-12.

m0NESY downed three CTs in the first pistol round on Inferno to cleanse the palate after his underwhelming display on Vertigo as G2 took the early lead, but Movistar Riders struck right back with rifles in play with SunPayus once again leading the way for his team in a 9-6 half.

G2 won the second round buy despite letting the pistol round go in their attempt to bring things even, but Alejandro "⁠mopoz⁠" Fernández-Quejo Cano came alive for the Riders as the Spaniards powered to a commanding 14-8 lead before Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač and company could retaliate. That spare round did not ease the pressure, however, and Galder "⁠bladE⁠" Barcena’s men cruised to a 16-9 victory to secure a spot in the Group A upper bracket quarter-final.

IEM Cologne 2022Best of 3

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7th July 2022

Movistar Riders

Vertigo

Inferno

G2	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Nemanja 'huNter-' Kovač huNter-	38 - 39	-1	75.9	1.10
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač NiKo	32 - 36	-4	73.2	1.00
Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen Aleksib	26 - 35	-9	68.8	0.87
Ilya 'm0NESY' Osipov m0NESY	24 - 33	-9	40.4	0.74
Audric 'JACKZ' Jug JACKZ	26 - 37	-11	58.2	0.74

Movistar Riders	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Alvaro 'SunPayus' Garcia SunPayus	42 - 21	+21	79.7	1.41
David 'dav1g' Granado Bermudo dav1g	37 - 32	+5	77.7	1.19
Alejandro 'mopoz' Fernández-Quejo Cano mopoz	39 - 35	+4	74.9	1.14
Raúl 'DeathZz' Jordán Nieto DeathZz	33 - 31	+2	76.8	1.09
Alejandro 'alex' Masanet alex	28 - 29	-1	66.5	1.01

unlucko lol

2022-07-07 15:02

4 replies

Always unlucky for G2 :(

2022-07-07 15:03

2 replies

Name, flair and flag check out also your name very true and based

2022-07-07 15:04

1 reply

fathering

2022-07-07 15:06

40 ADR HAHAHAHAHAVAHA

2022-07-07 15:16

POG

G0-2

damn

THE GOAT DELIVERS

7 replies

“Goat” lol

2022-07-07 15:07

6 replies

Monesy AKA Bugesy The "NOAT" delivered in Vertigo to make Sunpayus AKA The Real G.O.A.T. carry with Ferrari Peek 0.8 Rating King Dav1g

2022-07-07 15:24

5 replies

Ok 0/8

2022-07-07 15:27

2022-07-07 15:44

#51

2022-07-07 16:41

-1000

2022-07-07 17:13

Flair

2022-07-07 17:33

VAMOS

G2 degster incoming

G2 absolute bots

20 replies

Your rank and age big boy ?

2022-07-07 15:18

19 replies

Global like 1 year after cs came out 4.4k elo faceit

2022-07-07 15:22

16 replies

4.4k faceit surely if you even had half of that elo you wouldnt be wasting your time on hltv

15 replies

If you could read my previous comments you would know im pro in another similar game:)

2022-07-07 15:29

14 replies

What game? Out of curiosity.

2022-07-07 15:38

12 replies

Val

2022-07-07 15:41

11 replies

your val team name?

2022-07-07 15:50

10 replies

Dude im writing too many retarded things there xd better stay anonymous

2022-07-07 15:55

oh ofc

2022-07-07 15:56

If you didn’t know, riot games is a very strict/firm company, u can get banned for years/perm from their game for writing 1 bad thing

2022-07-07 15:57

Got like a weeks voice ban for saying someone is shit a few times after he started talking too much whilst bottomfragging.

2022-07-07 15:59

And you’re just a random player in random matchmaking game And now imagine a player that plays in Riot sponsored league and represents the game smh

2022-07-07 16:04

Ye I know. They are a bit too snowflakey for me, but I guess that's the standard we're abiding by recently.

2022-07-07 16:08

Tbf typical CSGO assholery is why i stopped playing the game. Played one random ranked match after 6 months of pause and had to listen to 14year old kids complaining about how "shit" i was although they played like idiots. No thanks, waste of time. Faceit is even worse toxicity wise.

2022-07-07 17:23

Riot will not ban you,if you say your nick and tag of your team. So,we are waiting xD @ thread G2 disband xD

2022-07-07 17:25

Not about this, but calling other teams trash, dogshit, garbage, insulting players, maybe that will help them :)

2022-07-07 17:26

Still waiting for that pro valorant nick name and team tag.

2022-07-08 06:48

Nick and tag?

2022-07-08 11:12

"you are only esea adv so you have no right to make fun of people who get paid 300k+ per yr to play a videogame when they lose" What is it like to go through life with such warped reasonability? And by your logic, if your rank is lower than his, you can't criticize him lol

2022-07-07 15:23

dude, he doesnt even know that casters of lol/cs are like gold ranks

2022-07-07 15:30

Let's gooooo!!

Fluke

CRY

2022-07-07 15:08

Explain me pls how Woro2K's play against EF made many of you angry

2022-07-08 10:01

LET'S GO MOVISTAR

2022-07-07 15:05

KEKW G02 KEKW G02 KEKW G02

SunPayus owns m0NESY

G2nd is not even 2nd anymore

-600k 0.74

ESPAÑA!

Give this guys the stickers they deserve!!!

24 - 33 -9 40.4 0.74 Not good at all :/

Lets go movistar riders

2022-07-07 15:10

Sorry ... but I really enjoy NiKo losing like this. actually im not sorry.

Hahahaha

2022-07-07 15:11

Gtier2

G2 degster G2 yekindar Yes?

yes and yes, and let alexi actually choose how to play the game. but we all know what will happen... Alexi on the chopping block

How many IGL's does NiKo need to burn through before they realize the problem???

2022-07-07 16:40

siiiiiiuuuu

40 adr awper yikes

2022-07-07 15:12

LOST $300 THANKS NIKO !!!

2022-07-07 15:13

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G2 bettor KEKW

Are You actually dumb enough to bet on G2? I earned like 190 euro this game cuz it was obviously 50/50 or 52/48 for MSR

MSR IS NEWBIE TEAM G2 IS OLD TEAM !

Newbie team that is getting better and better every single tournament vs. "old team"(that isn't old since 2 changes) and its getting worse and worse every single tournament. You're obviously 37 iq and dont know sh!t about CS.

2022-07-07 16:33

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msr will lose next match if you dont agree with me your knowledge too weak

2022-07-07 18:03

Wassup now mr. expert? Probably some supreme or lvl7 faceit bot. I told You MSR is getting better. Vitality isn't a team, they only win if one of the players is shining, without it they can't do sh!t.

2022-07-08 23:22

MSR will lose next match Vitality is not next match because 2 days ago MSR beated Vita So MSR will lose NaVi match

2022-07-09 12:59

STOP BETTING ON JITU

2022-07-07 15:40

Why would you do that… Hahahaha

2022-07-07 16:01

lets fucking go

The cousin effect hahahahahavahahavavavava

sunpayus GOAT

2022-07-07 15:26

Wow, Riders is just so lucky guys! T1 teams always have some kind of problem facing us. Hope it’s not that Riders is actually good

2022-07-07 15:28

First I thought Movi beating VP was just a fluke but now you guys convinced me!!! A really good form right now and hope they will make Spaniards CSGO proud for once haha

2022-07-07 15:32

Haha, good buddy

2022-07-07 17:11

G2 very unlucky team. Nothing to do with skill, just unlucky.

Feels like alex and mopoz has been around for AGES and I was thinking that it's soooo cool to see them finally peak while being above 30 years old! Then I saw that they're only 25 and 26 years old haha :D Still young with a lot of years left, this is really good for the spanish scene! Musamban1 is defenetely watching this with tears in his eyes!

2022-07-07 15:34

Musamban1 is looking for his own success nowadays being BIG Equipa coach

Yee but both of them have been playing in Riders for almost 5 years, thats a lot of time.

Goes on to show a good national team with common language, culture, friendship and much work is generally better than a sum of mecernaries with skill... If WE still doubted that ...

2022-07-07 15:37

All it shows is that a washed up deag god, and Aimee’s aren’t enough to beat a tear 2-3 team that plays as real team and use their brains.

Washed up #3 ranked player in 2021 and in the last 12 monthes... Mmmmmkay... Who's ''Aimee'' btw ? The team and brain parts are suite right though. G2 gonna G2...

2022-07-07 16:42