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<\/a>Credit: wonker Flickr<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n Betting on the number of goals scored in a football match has become increasingly popular in recent years, and since this simple bet doesn\u2019t rely on one side winning your bet won\u2019t necessarily get blown apart if a team has an off-day. It can also last the majority of the game in a lot of situations.<\/p>\n The most common type of total goals betting in football is over\/under betting, with over or under 2.5 goals being the most popular option for the simple reason that it lies close to the average number of goals per game in most popular football leagues, and hence the odds for either over or under 2.5 goals are generally around evens, giving a decent return on your investment – if your bet wins of course.<\/p>\n While you can also bet on the exact number of goals scored in a football match, we will focus here on the over\/under markets, stats and strategies; in short, everything you need to start betting on betting on overs or unders of all denominations.<\/p>\n Total goals betting is simple; you just need to decide whether you think a match will produce over or under a particular \u2018goal total\u2019, which can be anything including 0.5 goals, 1.5, 2.5, 3.5\u2026 way up to 7.5 and above for some matches.<\/p>\n People who are not familiar with over\/under betting often ask why the bookies offer odds on over or under a figure that involves half a goal. Well, obviously a team can never score half a goal in a game of football (though you wouldn\u2019t put it past FIFA to introduce such a rule at some point!), and so using half goals as the goal line value ensures that it becomes a win or lose bet, with no draw, tie, or void option.<\/p>\n If, for example, bookies offered odds on over or under two goals exactly, there would be some ambiguity about whether or not the bet would be a winner if exactly two goals were scored in a match. In such a case it is likely the bookmaker would make the bet a \u201cpush\u201d and thus return the punter\u2019s stake, but they would technically be within their rights to count exactly two goals as causing both under two and over two goals to be losing bets. Also, what’s the point in a ‘push’? You may as well have never made the bet in the first place.<\/p>\n Clearly quoting odds for under\/over 2.5 goals takes away the uncertainly: if there are three or more goals in the game, those backing over 2.5 goals will have won, if there are two or fewer, those backing unders will have won.<\/p>\n Obviously the odds quoted for the different over\/under goals markets will vary based on a number of factors (see below), but if we take a Premier League match between two relatively well-matched sides who play attacking football, the following odds will give you at least an idea of what you might expect to find for each market.<\/p>\n As you can see, the bookies will always build in a margin for themselves, but that is not to say they always set the odds at the level that represents the actual likelihood of an event occurring.\u00a0Which leads us onto answering the crucial question: how can we try and land some winning bets on over\/under goals?<\/p>\nHow does Over\/Under Goals Betting Work<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nTypical Over\/Under Goals Odds<\/h3>\n
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Over\/Under Goals Betting Strategy<\/h2>\n