ESB brings you Rocket League betting predictions for a pair of RLCS 2023 World Championship Group A lower-bracket bouts on Friday, August 11. Here are our selections for Team Secret vs Team Falcons and Complexity vs Ninjas in Pyjamas.

?The offered Rocket League betting odds on this match are a bit out of control. Even though Team Falcons are the second-best team from EMEA and Team Secret are the third seed from South America, the $6.00 price for the latter is somewhat disrespectful.

Team Secret lost against Karmine Corp (4-1) on Tuesday but performed much better than the final score would suggest. Roberto Lima “Sad” de Souza and his crew only really struggled on the first map (1-3) but were highly competitive on the second, fourth and fifth, which all ended in overtime.

Team Falcons didn’t look too bad in their loss to Team BDS, but their map-to-map performance was highly volatile. Admittedly, they lost two maps in overtime, so it’s fair to say they came close to winning, but that doesn’t justify them being priced as $1.11 favourites for this match.

Team Secret performed much better than expected in the first round of the tournament, and against strong opposition. So even though Secret’s showing in the play-ins was concerning, they should never be priced as such big underdogs for this bout.

?Complexity had an explosive start to their series against Team Liquid and looked like they would come out ahead, but they ran out of steam in the final stretch and lost 3-4. It was a decent performance from North America’s third seed, but there are some things Complexity have to work on.

Ninjas in Pyjamas were favoured to defeat KRU Esports in their opening match of Group A, but they fumbled their chances. Like Complexity, Ninjas in Pyjamas were in a great spot to win but ended up losing the final two maps and were left empty-handed.

Complexity played a competitive game against a stronger opponent and won their only previous clash with NiP, getting up 3-1 in July; however, their odds are way too short for our liking. This should be a competitive game, so we prefer to be on the side of NiP with a 2.5-map advantage.

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