Over Under Explained in Football?

When betting or trading on football, over and under goals is a nice market to play around with and it is not to difficult to understand and get the hang of quickly.

Over

When betting for over you are saying the total amount of goals will be over the amount you are betting on. Here is an example of the markets:

Over 0.5 – You are saying the game will have 1 goal or more, if not you lose.

Over 1.5 – You are saying the game will have 2 goals or more, if not you lose.

Over 2.5 – 3 goals or more, if not you lose.

Over 3.5 – 4 goals or more, if not you lose.

This continues on, sometimes some matches will go up to over 7.5 goals, you will not see this so often, but usually will if a really strong team is playing a really weak team, think of Barcelona v East Stirlingshire.

Under is the opposite of over, here is an example:

Under

Under 0.5 – If game has no goals you win, any goal and you lose.

Under 1.5 – If game has no goals or 1 goal you win, anymore and you lose.

Under 2.5 – 2 goals or less, if not you lose.

Under 3,5 – 3 goals or less, if not you lose.

I hope that explained how both over and under work, and also remember in both these markets, it does not matter who scores the goals, it is the total amount combined from both teams.