Whether you consider yourself an experienced member of the football betting community or you are someone who has just entered the world of wagers, it can be difficult to know what markets should be given the most attention. However, we have five where your increased focus should lie:
A quintet of markets that should allow you to really perfect your betting strategy and once you hit perfection, profitability should not be all that far away either. This means in no particular order; we will now give an in-depth explanation of the best football markets to bet on.
1) Match Outcome
One of the most popular bets that football fans place is the outcome of the match itself. With the market being known as the 1×2 or win draw win, punters are handed three options before the match gets underway.
What Will The Match Outcome Be?
While the bet is a very simple one to place, it can be a difficult one to master. Then again, because of its simplicity, it is one that punters will keep coming back to. While an example of the market, would look something like this:
Tottenham 4.50
Draw 4.00
Manchester City 1.72
In this instance, all you need to do is predict which outcome you think will unfold at the end of 90 minutes. You can pick either the home win (Tottenham), the away win (Manchester City), or the draw.
Make the correct decision and your stake will be multiplied by the odds. Make the incorrect decision and your stake will become the permanent possession of the bookmaker that you have gone up against.
2) Double Chance
While another of the best football markets to bet on is the double chance market and this particular offering is an extension of the example above. Whereas you are only offered one option in the win/draw/win, the double chance offers you two.
In doing so, it also means that you as the punter have more in the way of insurance. The odds offered will not be as tempting as our first example, but your chances of winning will have increased considerably.
If we look at the same match but the double chance odds instead, they look like this:
Tottenham Or Draw – 2.05
Draw or Manchester City – 1.18
Tottenham or Manchester City – 1.22
Once again, there are three outcomes, but the trio offers a wider range of possibilities. Here you can either bet on Tottenham to earn at least a point (win or draw), Manchester City to earn at least a point (win or draw), or either of the two teams to win this Premier League game.
A bet of this kind can be construed as safer than the match outcome and therefore, veteran punters often use this market to build up their profitability on a long-term basis. If you are prepared to grind out profits, this is the way to go.
3) Draw No Bet
This is another market that offers you an element of insurance and whereas the double chance offers more options, this particular angle takes one away. Quite simply, the stalemate from any match is removed from the equation.
This means that all you are aiming to do is to pick a match winner and with the draw still being something that can occur within the game, this bet offers something of a twist – one that involves getting your stake bet.
Back The Right Winner And You Will Be Celebrating
Because if Tottenham and Manchester City duke it out and only manage to share the points in North London, it means the market is declared null and void. With no winner in the game, neither you nor the bookmaker wins the bet.
Once again, that additional insurance comes at a price and that price is lower odds than found in the win/draw/win. To give you a better idea of the decrease, we will use the same match as in the first two examples:
Tottenham 3.40
Manchester City 1.30
As we can see Tottenham’s odds for the match win have come down from 4.50 to 3.40 and Manchester City’s have decreased from 1.72 to 1.30. Then again, with only two options to choose from instead of three, this makes it even easier to bet on the match outcome.
4) Correct Score
This market is exactly what you would expect it to be, as you are betting on the correct score. If you can predict what will happen at the end of 90 minutes, your wager will be converted into winnings instead.
It is a very easy bet to place, but it can also be a tricky market to master. With that said, the risk certainly does mean reward and you can expect to see much greater odds than in any of the three previous examples.
Not only that, but it is also a market that lends itself to rewarding research. Should you be able to analyse the goalscoring and defensive statistics, you can get an idea of just where exactly to place your correct score bet.
For example, if we know that both Tottenham and Manchester City have plenty of firepower but also a tendency to concede goals, backing a 0-0 draw is not a bet that comes highly recommended. On the other hand, backing a 2-1 away win at odds of 9.00 certainly does.
This is why this market can also be a way to boost your bankroll in a rather quick fashion and if you can master correct score bets through data analysis, the additional time invested beforehand will certainly be worthwhile.
5) Over/Under Bets
Last but not least are the bets known as over/under. In this instance, you are betting on the frequency of a certain action. For example, you may bet on whether a certain number of goals will occur in a match.
Should this be the case, then the most popular bet is the over/under 2.5 goals market and if you are confused by a team trying to score half a goal, there is no need to worry. Instead, we can look at the market like this.
Can You Predict The Number Of Goals
If you are backing a match to finish in under 2.5 goals, you think the match will end in two total goals or less.
If you are backing a match to finish in over 2.5 goals, you think the match will end in three total goals or more.
To put this into practice, the Tottenham vs Manchester City would look as follows:
Over 2.5 – 1.72
Under 2.5 – 2.10
Still Plenty More
The bookmakers believe the clash will end in two or fewer total goals being scored. You could decide to go with their opinion or choose the alternative instead or you could make things even more interesting by adding or subtracting a goal.
You can bet on over/under 1.5 goals being scored, and you can bet on over/under 3.5 goals scored. You can even expand the principle to anything else that is quantified within a football match. Corners, fouls, shots, cards, and more.
If there is a figure that is eventually recorded as a statistic, you can bet on whether there will be more or less than a certain benchmark and the beauty of this market is that the outcome of the game is irrelevant.
Instead of backing a winner, you are just backing things to happen throughout the 90 minutes, and this is why the market is such a popular offering from bookmakers. An offering that we also highly recommend.
