Betting on the Goals Markets

Betting on the goals markets is becoming increasingly popular in football betting. The main advantage of this type of bet is that the result is irrelevant to you (unless it’s your own team of course!). Instead of betting on a team to win or draw you are betting on how many goals you think there will be in total.

The Overs/Under’s markets are the most popular when betting on how many goals you think there will be in any given game. The usual divisions are Over/Under 1.5 goals, Over/Under 2.5 goals or Over/Under 3.5 goals. The best of these is the Over/Under 2.5 goals so I will use this one as an example.

Over/Under means you can either bet on there being under 2.5 goals i.e. 0, 1 or 2 goals in the match IN TOTAL, or over 2.5 goals, so 3, 4, 5 or 6 etc. Don’t forget, the result is irrelevant to your bet; you are simply looking for the total amount of goals. The 2.5 market is the most popular because the odds on offer are normally just either side of evens, for example Over 2.5 goals may be about 8/11 and Under 2.5 goals 11/10. These prices will be indicative of how the teams involved usually perform in front of goal.  Of course the 1.5 and 3.5 markets will have adjusted prices because they are more and less likely to happen respectively. Under 1.5 goals means you are betting on their being just 0 or 1 goals in a game, whereas Over 3.5 goals means you are betting on there to be at least 4 goals. Both of these outcomes will be priced much higher than the Over 1.5 or Under 3.5 alternative.

These Overs/Under’s markets are also popular to bet in accumulators to increase the odds. As we know, the more matches you decide to put in your accumulator the higher the risk of failure, but the higher rewards should all your selections be correct.

By Andy Clark

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