Types of bets on football
These are no longer the prehistoric times when the betting was simply about who would win. Now you can - and even you have to - win! - bet so many different events and add so many conditions that your head is small. Nevertheless, it is not so difficult to catch up with the types of markets offered by bookmakers. Stairs appear at the moment of making a decision what to bet on in order to minimize the risk of failure. Bookmakers are tempting, but you need to know how to get through this jungle of offers safely.
Below we present the most popular bets, but we also clearly state which are profitable and which are occupied mainly by Sunday players who do not know what they are doing.
Long-term bets
Let's start with long-term bets, which you can place long before the start and long before the end of the game. A typical long-term bet is, for example, to bet on the league winner. The Champions League is so popular that bets are placed on the winner of the next season's winners right after the end of the season. Is it worth to enter? Long-term betting is not a simple art. First of all, it is difficult to predict who will be in the final and will win the cup - after all, the best clubs in Europe, if not in the world, meet in the matches. The situation in such a Bundesliga has been simple for years: Bayern Munich wins and that's it. But even in German football you have to keep your eyes open to catch a good long-term bet. So what is the difficulty? Apart from the fact that you really need a lot of knowledge about the league, clubs, transfers, staff changes and the like, you also need to demonstrate your knowledge of the bookmaking market and its trends. If you know for sure who you want to bet on, you also have to do it at the right time, as long as the odds are high and it pays to put any money into the bet.
Double chance
A double chance is to bet on road 3, but with a combination of two match results:
- 1/2 - one team or the other wins (usually 1 = hosts, 2 = guests),
- 1/X - the first team wins or there will be a draw (usually 1 = hosts),
- 2/X - the second team wins or there will be a draw (usually 2 = guests).
Handicaps
But handicap betting is a completely different melody. You bet on winning one side or the other, but an additional factor is imposed: the winner must win even though his opponent will receive 2 additional goals from the march. So let's say that they meet on the pitch Juventus and Zagreb. The favorites are clear in this system, so the odds on road 2. and 3. bets are at best poor. But what if Dinamo started a match with 2 goals ahead? This would mean that Juve has to win at least 3 goals in order for a bet placed on them in the handicap to actually be settled as a win, and this alone raises the odds and potential payout from the bet.
Above/below (over/under)
Betting on the exact number of goals is hard and from our point of view unprofitable (you win too rarely). There is, however, a kind of bet on goals that puts things differently: below/above, i.e. over/under. Instead of betting on exactly 3 goals in a match, you bet on more or less than 3.5 goals. So let's just say that from what you know before the match, both sides will focus on the attack. However, we are talking about the Football Champions League, so the goals will not fall like basketball dips - so you predict a 1:1 or 2:1 draw for the hosts. Then you make a bet "below" 3.5 goals. In this way, the results in which the sum of goals does not exceed 3 will bring you a victory.
Live betting
Live betting is very popular and always welcome in the bookmaking offer. Is it right? It's definitely fantastic fun: watch a match and bet on what's about to happen. But if you think about betting more seriously, you need to know that betting live has a fundamental flaw: you have to be in the stands during the match. A television broadcast, however fast and modern it is, will never be able to transmit a picture so fast that there is no delay. And every delay works to your disadvantage - the bookmaker immediately reacts to every event on the pitch, observes what is happening on the reserve bench, immediately estimates and re-establishes odds.
You need to react as quickly as possible to catch the best betting opportunities. However, if you are even a second behind, the bookmaker still gains a huge advantage over you.