Guide to football betting

This guide to football betting will highlight a lot of the different sorts of bets you can do. It will also explain how each bet works.

90 Minute Market

The first and most used market is the traditional 90 minutes market.

This market basically has 3 selections in which you can choose. They are Home, Draw or Away. Depending on what outcome you think the match will end. If you think the home side will win you back this, and same applies for draw and away.

Most bets are placed on this 90 minute market.

Draw no Bet

This bet offers you added security unlike the 90 minute market. If for example you think the home side will win, but you are a little worried about a draw letting you down.

If you back on home side or away side using this bet, if the game does end up a draw you get all your stake back and lose nothing.

The odds will be reduced slightly than what you would be offered in the 90 minute market, but you do have the game being a draw protecting you. Of course if the opposite selection you chose wins, you would lose your bet.

Correct Score

You will find the odds in correct score at quite high prices, this is because how difficult it is to get correct. When betting on the correct score market you are predicting what the final score will be at the end of the game.

Because the odds are quite high it is possible while doing this bet to select various outcomes. For example if you think a team will win 1-0, 2-0, 3-0 or 3-1 you can back all 4 and profit if the outcome is one of these.

Asian handicaps

Asian handicaps vary widely and are slightly more complicated than normal bets, but do provide you with odds that may seem more lucrative for you.

For example say Arsenal were playing and you fancied them to win but the odds were a little short. With Asian handicapping you could perhaps give the other side a 1 or 2 goal head start in the game, therefore giving you much better back odds for Arsenal. In general this is how this betting works, and there are loads of different rules.

Half Time/Full Time

With this bet you are choosing what outcomes will be at end of the 1st half, and what the outcomes will be at the end of the game.

So if you think the game will be a draw at half-time, but the home team will be the winners by full-time, you would bet on draw/home. Or if you thought away team would be winning at end of the 1st half, and then game would end a draw, you would back away/draw.

There are 9 selections in total you can choose, as there is only 9 possible outcomes that can happen. They are home/home – home/draw – home/away – draw/home – draw/draw – draw/away – away/home – away/draw and away/away.

Next Goal

You can use this bet if you have a strong feeling a team will score the next goal. If they do score the next goal in the match you win. If the other team scores the next goal you lose. This bet is mostly used when the game is live and in-play.

Over / Under Goals

This bet is exactly what it says, you can back for many types including 1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5, and sometimes other games go higher.

If you thought the game was going to have 3 goals or more you would back over 2.5 goals. You would only lose this bet if the game ended 0-0, 1-0, 0-1, 1-1, 2-0 or 0-2. However if you had backed under 2.5 goals, you would have won on any of those previous outcomes.

That is how over and under goals work.

That is mostly all the most popular markets when betting on football.