Football Spread Betting - Total Goal Minutes

Staff Writer - 19 Nov 2009

This is a very volatile market and care should be taken when placing bets.

You must use your judgement to estimate the total aggregate time of all goals scored in the game. Goals scored in the 44th and 82nd minute would add up to 126 total goal minutes.

Take a match between Manchester United and Arsenal. SportingIndex might predict 125-135 total goal minutes.

If Arsenal won the game 3-0 and the goals came in the 7th, 23rd and 90th minutes the result would be 120 minutes. Had you gone low on goal minutes at 125 (expecting few goals) you would have won 5 times your stake, in this case £1 a minute: (125 - 120) x your stake = 5 x £1 = £5. But if total goal minutes had added up to 134, the same bet would have lost you 9 times your stake: (125 - 134) x your stake = -9 x £1 = -£19.





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