MOUZ vs Falcons: ESL Pro League 21 betting tips, predictions

Steven Rondina Published 07/03/2025

MOUZ and Team Falcons have become fast rivals, and their next match will take place in ESL Pro League Season 21’s group stage.

Team Falcons rebuilt its Counter-Strike roster by sacking Heroic, and it’s looking like that was a strong move. After more than a year of being a punchline among CS2 fans, the bird team finally looks the part of an elite-level organization.

It still hasn’t won a tournament, though, thanks to MOUZ. So what will happen here, as they face off in ESL Pro League Season 21?

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MOUZ vs Team Falcons match details

The Counter-Strike 2 teams of MOUZ and Team Falcons will face off in a best-of-three match in ESL Pro League Season 21’s second group stage. Both won their first match of the event, against Furia and Team Liquid, respectively.

MOUZ vs Team Falcons rosters and analysis

MOUZ roster and recent results

MOUZ shook off a pair of tough outings in IEM Katowice 2025 and the BLAST Bounty Spring qualifiers by winning PGL Cluj-Napoca. That reasserted MOUZ as one of CS2’s best. It established that already with a top-four showing at the Shanghai Major and second-place finish at IEM Rio 2024.

Ádám “torzsi” Torzsás
Dorian “xertioN” Berman
Jimi “Jimpphat” Salo
Ludvig “Brollan” Brolin
Lotan “Spinx” Giladi

MOUZ map pool

Over the last three months, MOUZ has a roughly 50-50 record on Ancient, Inferno, and Mirage. It has gone 3-0 on Dust 2 during that time and won its lone match on Train. Its best map is Nuke, where it has a 6-3 record.

Team Falcons roster and recent results

Falcons put together a new roster in January by releasing everyone except for Magisk, acquiring G2 Esports’ NiKo, and scooping up the core of Heroic. The team looked shaky initially, but seemingly gelled at PGL Cluj-Napoca en route to a second-place finish. Here is its current roster:

Emil “Magisk” Reif
Nikola “NiKo” Kovač
René “TeSeS” Madsen
Damjan “kyxsan” Stoilkovski
Abdulkhalik “degster” Gasanov

Team Falcons map pool

Dust 2 is Falcons’ best map thus far, with the current roster having a 7-4 record. Every other map is roughly 50-50. This team is still nascent though, so “roughly 50-50” is just 3-2 or 2-1. There’s not enough sample size to figure out where Falcons is at its best; though the team clearly likes Dust 2.

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MOUZ vs Team Falcons head-to-head record

Team Falcons’ current roster played against MOUZ twice in PGL Cluj-Napoca. Falcons scored a big upset win over MOUZ in the group stage, but MOUZ got revenge in the finals by taking a 3-1 victory.

MOUZ vs Team Falcons betting odds snapshot

MOUZ is regarded as a modest favorite over Team Falcons. The moneylines stand at 1.74 vs 2.07, giving bettors quite a bit of flexibility.

MOUZ vs Team Falcons betting picks & predictions

Core picks

Moneyline bets on either team
- 1.74 vs 2.07 is a completely reasonable line and offers a solid return with a win
Map bets that pick things going down to the wire
- MOUZ games against high-end opponents often go long, so picking something like MOUZ wins map 1 in over 20.5 rounds yields a much stronger 3.5 return instead of the comparatively modest 1.74

Prediction

MOUZ has the edge over Team Falcons on paper, with a larger body of work and stronger results. Any bets on Falcons are still prospective in nature, and are largely based on the team’s strong performance in PGL Cluj-Napoca. That may or may not have been an aberration but even if it wasn’t, MOUZ is still a high-tier CS2 team.

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Steven Rondina is a true lifelong gamer. His earliest memories are of playing video games, and he has continued playing them throughout his life with no plans to stop any time soon. Steven’s favorite franchises in gaming include Pokemon, Dark Souls, and Counter-Strike. He has previously published with Bleacher Report and other gaming outlets.

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