Natus Vincere are now 2-0 in the second stage of ESL Pro League Season 11 Europe after taking down OG in a nail-biting three-map affair.

The CIS giants stuttered, then moved into high gear, once again coming out victorious in the end after giving a poor account of themselves on the opening map. The match at times resembled NAVI's victory against Astralis yesterday, though the IEM Katowice champions did not find things as easy as they had against the Danes and left it late to wrap up the series against a stubborn OG side, who are still winless in this stage of the league.

NAVI showed the exact same issues on Inferno that had cost them the opening map against Astralis. They were completely outfought during the early stages of the game, in which Kirill "⁠Boombl4⁠" Mikhailov was constantly caught off-guard as he attempted to take banana control without any sort of help.

With the game starting to get away from NAVI, Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev and Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov gave the team a bolt of resurgent energy with some key multi-kill frags as they combined for 23 frags in the half (68 percent of NAVI's total) to reduce the deficit to five rounds before the break.

Now playing on the Terrorist side, NAVI kept themselves in the game after winning a messy pistol round on the A site, but there was no follow-up as OG responded immediately following a trio of kills from Valdemar "⁠valde⁠" Bjørn Vangså with a Desert Eagle. Natus Vincere never found themselves in the game after that, picking up only one more round before the map came to an end.

s1mple was in great form as NAVI pulled off a reverse sweep

s1mple opened up the action on Overpass with a quad-kill to put NAVI in the lead, with the CIS side following that up with the next two rounds for a solid 3-0 start. The shape of the game changed dramatically once OG had money in the bank as Aleksi "⁠Aleksib⁠" Virolainen's troops tightened up and gradually took the upper hand. NAVI were often betrayed by the clock and, for the most part, struggled to impose their will as they ended the half chasing a three-round deficit.

Things went from bad to worse for NAVI after the break as they fell further behind after losing the opening rounds, but they took control of proceedings after getting their economy under control. Boombl4's charges shut out the OG offense with a near-flawless defensive display, winning nine rounds without response to level the series.

Natus Vincere got off to a flying start to their T side on Dust2 and tore the OG apart defense during the early stages of the game. Aleksib put his team on the board after denying a 1v3 clutch from s1mple, but the Ukrainian was unfazed by the setback as he went 22-7 in the half to lead NAVI to a commanding 11-4 lead.

Nathan "⁠NBK-⁠" Schmitt kept OG in the game with a trio of p250 frags in the B tunnels, setting the team up for a 3-0 start to the half. NAVI responded with guns in hand and strung three rounds together, but then their defense began to crumble. OG went on a dominant run and brought the deficit to a minimum before Egor "⁠flamie⁠" Vasilyev stepped up to the plate with five frags in two rounds to take NAVI through the finish line.

ESL Pro League Season 11 EuropeBest of 3 Natus VincereMatchpage 2 1 6th April 2020 OG 7Inferno 16 16Overpass 12 16Dust2 13

Natus Vincere	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostylievs1mple	75 - 49	+26	94.7	1.41
Denis 'electroNic' SharipovelectroNic	58 - 48	+10	78.8	1.16
Ilya 'Perfecto' ZalutskiyPerfecto	50 - 47	+3	70.2	1.07
Egor 'flamie' Vasilyevflamie	44 - 54	-10	70.4	0.94
Kirill 'Boombl4' MikhailovBoombl4	30 - 60	-30	51.6	0.67

OG	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Mateusz 'mantuu' Wilczewskimantuu	62 - 49	+13	78.2	1.18
Issa 'ISSAA' MuradISSAA	52 - 56	-4	74.5	1.04
Valdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangsåvalde	52 - 47	+5	65.5	1.03
Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittNBK-	48 - 53	-5	70.1	0.98
Aleksi 'Aleksib' VirolainenAleksib	44 - 53	-9	70.0	0.97

Group A TEAM M P fnatic 2 6 Natus Vincere 2 6 MOUZ 1 3 FaZe 1 0 Astralis 2 0 OG 2 0 Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt Age: 25 Team: OG Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 1711 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.67 Kirill 'Boombl4' Mikhailov Age: 21 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 682 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.69 fnatic #5 Robin 'flusha' RönnquistJesper 'JW' WecksellFreddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonMaikil 'Golden' SelimLudvig 'Brollan' Brolin Andreas 'Samuelsson' Samuelsson MOUZ #4 Finn 'karrigan' AndersenChris 'chrisJ' de JongÖzgür 'woxic' EkerDavid 'frozen' ČerňanskýRobin 'ropz' Kool Allan 'Rejin' Petersen Valdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangså Age: 24 Team: OG Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 891 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.66 Astralis #2 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderNicolai 'device' ReedtzEmil 'Magisk' Reif OG #14 Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittValdemar 'valde' Bjørn VangsåAleksi 'Aleksib' VirolainenIssa 'ISSAA' MuradMateusz 'mantuu' Wilczewski Casper 'ruggah' Due Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev Age: 23 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 1314 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.67 FaZe #9 Olof 'olofmeister' KajbjerNikola 'NiKo' KovačHåvard 'rain' NygaardMarcelo 'coldzera' DavidHelvijs 'broky' Saukants Janko 'YNk' Paunović Natus Vincere #1 Egor 'flamie' VasilyevOleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' SharipovKirill 'Boombl4' MikhailovIlya 'Perfecto' Zalutskiy Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov Age: 21 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.11 Maps played: 882 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.66 Astralis #2 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderNicolai 'device' ReedtzEmil 'Magisk' Reif Danny 'zonic' Sørensen Natus Vincere #1 Egor 'flamie' VasilyevOleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' SharipovKirill 'Boombl4' MikhailovIlya 'Perfecto' Zalutskiy Andrey 'B1ad3' Gorodenskiy Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen Age: 23 Team: OG Rating 1.0: 0.99 Maps played: 647 KPR: 0.67 DPR: 0.66 Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev Age: 22 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.24 Maps played: 1135 KPR: 0.85 DPR: 0.65 OG #14 Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittValdemar 'valde' Bjørn VangsåAleksi 'Aleksib' VirolainenIssa 'ISSAA' MuradMateusz 'mantuu' Wilczewski