Assessing Football Form

A frequently used strategy is to place bets based on a team’s recent results. But the results alone are rarely useful as a single indicator for a team’s performance. There is a big difference between winning three consecutive matches against all the low -ranked teams compared to the top teams. Perhaps a team is notoriously bad away but a definite bet at home.

The style of recent wins can be important. Teams that won with three goals looked better than teams that only won 1-0. Things like this play a big role in assessing the value of a bet. Home/fight statistics combined with the number of goals in a win are therefore a better reference than just recent results.

If a team has won, drawn or lost in its last 3 games, then it is more significant than you expect. It’s not like tossing a coin that gets three heads and expects the next toss to be a head, when it has a 50% chance of being a tail. Regardless of who they played against 3 wins means the team has strikers to score goals; 3 draws indicate a defense has come together; and 3 losses show a slide. It’s hard to argue that this confidence in attack or defense, or general lack of faith won’t carry over into the next game.

Head to Head
• Recent head -to -head results indicate how the teams have matched past encounters. Consider how much has changed so far. New players may have arrived or one of the teams may be suffering from injured key players. As a rule of thumb, matches more than a year ago will reveal very little about the current relationship between the teams. More relevance should be given to meetings between the two teams in the last 12 months.

Style of Play
• Head to head notes are accurate data that is easy to find. Analyzing that data and drawing some simple conclusions from it should also not be overly difficult.

The style of playing of a soccer team is less visible. It is open to interpretation to some extent, and it is very difficult to assess exactly what effect a team’s playing style will have on the outcome of a game. Doing so effectively requires a basic understanding of soccer and how it is played. You also need to take a lot of time to actually watch the teams play to form your own opinions about their style of play.

The main point you should remove from this article is that there are many to consider when betting on soccer games. As we said at the beginning, you will not make money in the long run if you rely solely on guesswork or instinct. Even the consideration of just one or two factors is unlikely to lead to accurate predictions. If you want to earn regularly and consistently from soccer betting, you need to put in a little bit of effort. You need to learn how to assess and interpret everything we discussed above, and then study how to apply your findings to your predictions. If you do all of that, and you do it right, you will have a good chance of succeeding. READMORE