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Football (soccer to those reading in North America) is by far and away the biggest sport on the planet, with hundreds of thousands of teams the world over. It comes as no surprise then that billions of pounds are gambled on it every year. With the advent of internet betting sites, the range of options to bet money on is incredible. No longer is it a simple case of picking winners of matches, but you can also put money on which player will score the first goal, how many corner kicks there will be in the whole match and even the number of passes made by a particular player. This article will go through the most common (and most successful) forms of betting in football.
The accumulator. Often, just betting on one match will give you quite low odds, especially if it's a stronger team versus a weaker one. One way to get a better result is to put an accumulator on, which means that you pick the winners of up to a dozen matches, and the odds of all of the results going your way are added together. This means that instead of putting money on say Chelsea to beat West Ham and getting odds of 4 to 11 against (i.e. put 11 and get 4 back), if you try to call every game in the Premier League, you'll end with odds of around 200 to 1 on, which is much more profitable. Bear in mind that it only takes one game to go wrong for the whole thing to go wrong.
First goal scorer. For this one to work, you have to find a team where plenty of players score. The bookmakers will be able to see as well as you can that a player who has scored 30 already this season is very likely to score again, so you'll be offered poor odds. A team where 5 or 6 players have all scored a dozen goals will be a good bet, as each of their odds will be a little higher. You can try to cover yourself by putting a small bet on a lot of players to score, but be warned that a) you don't spend more than you'd win and b) games can still end 0 -0. 3.
Will both teams score? This option has only become available in recent years, and does exactly what it says you bet whether neither team, one team or both teams will score in the game. This is easier than the accumulator, as you're not worried about who scores, and works better in the lower leagues, where the strikers tend to be reasonable and the goalkeepers tend to be poor.
