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A very popular betting option in football is the over/under 2.5 goals scored market. Basically it allows fans to keep an interest in a match without hoping for the success of one team. More to the point punters on this market bet pretty much due to sheer interest rather than fanatical devotion to a club. To this point they miss out a sound investment option.
First of all a player needs a table splitting Home and Away performance. Certainly one of the best is  http://www.espnfc.com/barclays-premier-league/23/table
which quite helpfully allows the puter to access ionformation to prior seasons and thereby detect trends that happen on an annual basis. Although nothing is more relevant for the bettor than current season trends you need at least 15 games to be played for statistics to be reliable. Therefore the best view of the season’s trends can be viewed from 1 December onwards.
Furthermore the best starting place is the bottom of the league standings. Teams at this places often  have vast discrepancies between their home and their away performances. A good example here is Norwich. They have 6W,6D7l sring 17 goals, conceding 18 with an average of 1.84 goals per game. Moreover they have 2W,3D,14L scoring 11 goals while conceding 44 with an average of 2.89 per match. The 2012/2013 season was similar for the team. So the logic strategy here would be to take the under 2.5 goals in the home games(14 out of 19 games) and the over 2.5 in Norwich away clashes(9/19). Nevertheless the numbers show that taking the overs away fro the team is not practical since it salutes not more than half of the times and relied too much on their opponents scoring blowout wins against them.
A different strategy advises us to sieve the teams from the previous season who have the highest total goals scored at home and then searching for the team with the lowest differential, which suggest that an open style is practiced where both the home and away teams are likely to score. When ruling out the top 2 teams last season Manchester City and Liverpool, we see 15th Swansea which produced 59 goals in its home matches from the 19 games in the season or 3.1 goals per game with a 7 goal differential. So the 2.5 goals emerged correct in 13 out of 19 fixtures and would have been profitable for that matter, meaning that on average the odds for overs needed to only be 1.5 $ for the bettor to turn a profit over the season.
Moreover you are eable to improve those percentages in both scenarios above provided that you take into account the statistical performances of their opposition in any given game.
So if you had placed a bet of 10 $ each week on both unders in Norwich Homes and overs in Swansea Homes you’d have placed a total of 38 bets for 27 wins, a strike rate of 70 % and a serious gain therefore.
Furthermore if the stats suggest that there could be more than 2.5 goals in a match you should consider taking the over 1.5 goal option for a lower risk. And if you think there will be under 2.5 goals in a match, you need to consider taking the under 3.5 goals option for extra insurance.
