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Correct score betting is one of the most popular markets around when it comes to football, especially for punters looking for a big win from a small stake. Even the most likely score is usually priced at around 5\/1 or 6\/1, whilst if you are feeling bold, wilder bets often land at odds of 25\/1, 33\/1 and even higher.<\/p>\n
One score that people don\u2019t tend to back all that often is 0-0. This is partly because if you are watching the game there is something unpleasant, almost unnatural, about wanting neither team to score, essentially cheering on the prospect of nothing happening<\/em>. But it is also because 0-0s are, of course, relatively rare, occurring only around 8% of the time in general.<\/p>\n However, since the bore draw does happen, backing 0-0 is surely the right thing to do sometimes\u2026 or is it? Well, based on our 8% stat above, 0-0 should happen once every 12.5 games. Some of the time it will win and, what\u2019s more, some of the time it will be a good value bet. In addition to that, if you intend to watch a game for a bit of fun then backing 0-0 might be a sensible way to hedge your bets \u2013 at least if it does end up being a bore draw you\u2019ll land a tidy win, typically at odds around 10\/1. But is there a better way to do things, even if you don\u2019t think there will be any goals and want to back the 0-0 stalemate?<\/p>\n If you think a game is going to end without a goal, or simply want to make sure that if you sit through a 90 minute snooze-fest you at least make a few quid from it, it is always worth checking out the odds on No Goalscorer.<\/p>\n You can find this market in a variety of ways and whether you back it under First Goalscorer, Last Goalscorer or even Anytime Goalscorer, it amounts to the same thing. If there is no goalscorer bet and the game ends 0-0 you win your bet. Most bookies do not actually offer it under the Anytime market, although Ladbrokes, Coral and BetVictor typically do. The odds for first and last scorer are almost always the same as each other, certainly when it comes to backing no scorer, whilst this selection will usually also be priced at the same level in the anytime option.<\/p>\n The huge advantage of backing No Goalscorer, let\u2019s say in the First Goalscorer market (in general we would say FGS is the best option though it doesn\u2019t really matter) is that in goalscorer markets, own goals do not count.<\/p>\n Of course, in correct score betting own goals do<\/em> count, so if you back 0-0 and the game ends 1-0 it doesn\u2019t matter if that was an own goal, a 60 yard volley, or a tap-in in the fifth minute of added on time: the match did not end 0-0, therefore your bet did not win.<\/p>\n In contrast, when it comes to First Goalscorer betting, own goals are simply disregarded. For the sake of the settlement of that market it is as if they never happened, meaning that a game that ends 5-4 can still (in theory!) be a winner for No Goalscorer if, and we admit this is a big if, all nine goals were OGs. That said, there was once a game that ended 149-0, with all 149 goals being own goals<\/a>! In case you hadn\u2019t guessed, that was a game thrown by SO l’Emyrne who deliberately scored almost 150 OGs in protest!<\/p>\nNo Goalscorer May Be The Shrewd Move<\/h2>\n
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The majority of the time at most bookies you will find that these markets are priced at the same odds more or less. So if you can back a 0-0 correct score at 8.0, No Goalscorer in the FGS (or LGS, or sometimes Anytime) will also be 8.0 or thereabouts. This isn\u2019t always<\/em> the case though, so it is worth checking.<\/p>\n