Football betting types every African bettor needs to know

Football is popular sports in Africa and football fans love betting on it. Football betting is the main revenue for local and international sportsbooks, attributed to the many betting sites offering football betting.

Football betting has a wide range of bets to choose from favorable for both new bettors and experienced bettors. They are not like other sports that have limited betting options. Football betting has basic bets for beginners and expert bettors have a bit more complicated bets.

This article provides most of the frequent betting types every African bettor must know to give an upper hand in understanding his chances of winning or losing.

Simple Bets
Simple bets are friendly to new bettors. It only requires a small stake to place a wager and has low risks and low payouts. Simple bets include:

• Match bets
It a popular bet placed by beginners. One can select one outcome either an away win, home win, or draw. A Match bet is known as a match result.

• Correct score
A bettor only predicts the correct score at the end of the match. Predicting the correct match is difficult since there are plenty of probabilities at the end of the match such as 2-1, 4-2, 6-2, and 3-5 followed by long odds. The correct score is also known as match results bets and score bets.

• Goal Scorer
It is a simple bet. A punter only needs to predict which player(s) will score. It mostly relies on the first goalscorer. A sportsbook lists the best goal scorer(s) or strikers for a punter to choose from.

• Live Bets
Watching a live match has an advantage; a punter can place a bet as the game is happening. A better can bet on the goal, the next corner, the next free-kick, and many more. Live bets are also called In-play bets.

Complicated bets
These kinds of bets need one to have a proper understanding of football analytics before placing a bet. They are suitable for betting experts who have in-depth knowledge of football statistics, such bets have high risks with a high payout and a big amount of stake is placed. Complicated bets include:

• Each-way Bet
A bet is kept to predict which team(s) will finish as the first, second, third, and fourth during a given season. If any of the team(s) was predicted correctly, a punter receives a certain percentage of what was to be the winning depending on the odds listed.

• Over and Under Bet
It is a 2-way bet and only dictates two probabilities. A bookie will give two outcomes that are ‘less or more’ of many goals scored. Other factors that are included are the number of yellow cards, free kicks, or corners.

• Combination bet
A combination bet is known as Combi-bet. It is one of the difficult types of bets with huge payouts. It involves placing a wager on a collection of matches selected instead of the usual one. To win a combi-bet you must predict all the matches correctly. A punter needs to have a proper analysis of the previous games on the table to win.

• Draw no Bet
A bettor is given several selections by a bookie; if the bettor picked a ‘draw no bet’ type of bet and the games on the selection ends without a winner your money will be returned. Draw no bet is a type of insurance bet.

• Double chance
What are the odds of picking two correct outcomes from three options? Double chance bet offers a punter three options to get it right from a match. Simple as it sounds, a punter selects the preferred team to win or draw.

• Scorecast
Scorecast has competitive odds with big odds. A bet made on the correct score at the end of the game and the first goal scorer.

• Wincast
Wincast is the same as scorecast. However, the keyword used here is ‘win’–placing a bet on which team will win and who will be the player to score first.

Conclusion
There are more types of betting out there, learning them will give you the confidence to betting. Choose the best betting site to get the best of the offers and promotions offered plus generous payouts.

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“Hey, Peris here! I am enthusiastic about sports and gaming in general and a massive Liverpool fan. Every piece of writing you receive is brought to you by the power of countless cups of coffee!”