How Does Soccer Betting Work
In betting against the spread (ATS) terms, you’re giving your team a +0.5 handicap so that they can either win or draw the match. However, when choosing two of the three possible outcomes, bettors can also place a double chance bet on the outcome to be a win for either Team A or Team B. If betting does have a few rules, and one of the biggest rules when it comes to if betting in soccer, is how they handle a tie, push, or cancelled bet. Just as parlay rules are set up, some sports betting sites will count ties as losses, some count them as a push, and some count them as a win.
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The fundamentals of soccer betting do not differ too much from the structure of other sports, however there are features of the game of soccer that are reflected in the way its betting works. There are a few ways to bet on soccer: betting on the outcome of the game, betting on the spread, betting on the over/under of the total amount of goals scored in a game, and lastly, placing proposition or 'prop' bets.
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Betting on the Spread
In addition to betting win, loss or draw bets, you can also bet on the spread. The spread is what experts think needs to be adjusted to make the two teams even. For example, if the experts think that Team A should beat Team B by 1.5 goals, then Team B will have a +1.5 spread and Team A will have a -1.5 spread. With that being said, you can also bet on each team to cover the spread. Sticking with the example above, if you bet the Team B spread then Team B would have to lose by 1 goal, draw, or win in order for your bet to be successful. On the other hand, if you bet on Team A's spread, Team A would have to win by 2 goals in order for your bet to be successful. The money line associated with each spread choice is much different than the money line associated with a straight win, loss or draw bet as the likelihood of each outcome is much different.
Betting Props
How Does Soccer Spread Betting Work
Another way to bet on soccer is to make prop bets. Prop bets are short for the term proposition bets and are a more specific way to bet on a soccer game. Prop bets are a broad category of specific bets that have to do with a particular game. For example, if you think that Player A on Team A is going to score a goal in the upcoming game, you can bet that Player A will score.
Prop bets are unique because most of them do not concern the final outcome of the game, they instead concern a specific player or specific event. Each prop bet has a money line associated with it that is based on the likelihood of that specific event happening according to experts. Since these props bets are very specific, the money lines associated with them are typically very high and positive.