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Correct Score
Correct score betting involves the 'simple task' of guessing the outcome of any World Cup game over 90 minutes play. Statistically the most common scoreline in World Cup matches is 1-0 but consequently it will always be the shortest odds -commonly around the 5/1 mark. Now, in the first raft of matches at Germany 2006 a quarter of all games finished 1-0. Holland beat Serbia by this margin, the mighty Brazil overcame Croatia by the odd goal, and Portugal only managed one goal against Angola while of course England saw off Paraguay by that correct score. The beauty of correct score betting is obviously the bookmakers have no idea of what the final number of goals is going to be and by using football knowledge any punter can have an edge over other bettors.
It remains a myth that gambling involves betting against the bookmaker – any market including correct score betting involves punters going head to head. If more people fancy a certain score then this price will contract and if less fancy a correct score then the price will expand or drift. In its purest form Betfair and other betting exchanges allows punters to do this. If you were confident a score line wouldn't happen you would lay this score on the exchange. If you are correct and this score does not happen then you would collect.
A way of winning a correct score bet, or at least having a better chance, is to back more than one result. So instead of just putting the score you think will the correct one at 1-0 you would put 2-0, 0-0 and perhaps 0-1 to cover your options. Obviously you lose some of your advantage in the odds but you have more chance of winning.
One vagary of correct score betting is that if you had decided the England game against Paraguay would be 0-0 you would have been wrong. However you could have had a bet with the bookmakers or the exchanges that there would be 'no goalscorer' which is always the same price as the correct score 0-0. You would have been paid out because there was indeed no goalscorer as it was an own goal that gave England victory.
