Premier League Betting Guide

Use this BettingTop10 guide to Premier League betting to sharpen your soccer bets this season, with betting strategy that gives you an advantage.

To bet on Premier League soccer, you first need to pick from the best online sports betting sites. Competition between bookmakers is fierce, so you will often see very similar odds across the different sites.

That is why it pays to look for special markets on the English top flight, along with blogs offering EPL betting tips. You should also be able to grab exclusive offers and promotions that give your Premier League betting an early boost.

• 1-x-2: You bet on the match result. A home win is 1, a draw is X and an away win is 2
• First goal scorer: Choose the player who opens the scoring in the game
• Both teams to score: Predict that each side will get on the scoresheet
• Total goals over/under: Forget the winner and simply decide if the game goes over or under the set number of goals
• Win to nil: Back the winning team to keep a clean sheet as well

Beyond the usual match markets, there are plenty of other fun options when you bet on the Premier League. Below are a few worth a look.

• To remain unbeaten in 2019/20: Aimed at the top two or three clubs, this asks whether Manchester City or Liverpool can get through the whole season without losing.
• First manager sacked: The English Premier League is all about results, so some managers always lose their jobs. After the first coach of the season is shown the door, the market can switch to ‘next manager to be sacked’
• Liverpool to win their next 2/3/4 games: Jurgen Klopp’s side won 30 of their 38 matches last season and look strong again this term. How long can their winning run last?
• Transfer specials: Talk about the biggest Premier League stars never stops, even when the transfer window is shut. Plenty of players in other leagues want a move to England, so the rumour mill is always busy

Top goal scorer: Pick the player you expect to finish the season with the most Premier League goals. With so much talent in the league, there are plenty of contenders in this market
Premier League winner: Liverpool or Manchester City? Or could another club shock everyone, as Leicester did in 2016?

Steer clear of Liverpool and Manchester City apart from in unusual situations. Now that both clubs are so dominant, the standard markets on them offer no value at all.

One of the two will almost certainly lift the Premier League title, so a winning betting strategy has to look elsewhere. The upside is that the rest of the Premier League is pretty evenly matched. On their day, even a newly promoted side can beat most teams outside the top two, particularly on home soil.

Target a historically big club, such as Manchester United or Arsenal, when they travel to face a mid table side. The odds should still be fairly tempting, because people still assume the big clubs win almost every time.

Liverpool and Manchester City might lose just once or twice in a whole season, yet Spurs came fourth last season and still suffered an amazing 13 defeats. Watch for so-called smaller clubs that put together a winning run, and back them to beat the weaker second tier sides in the Premier League.

While the top of the Premier League stays this lopsided, there is not much sense in backing Liverpool and hoping to make good money. These days, staying in the Premier League matters more than anything for many clubs, which means their players will always dig deep for the cause.

• The Group Phase kicks off on Match Day 1, 17 September 2019, with games every two or three weeks until it ends on 11 December 2019.
• The Knockout Stage gets going on 18 February 2020 and continues until 06 May 2020, taking in the Round of 32, Round of 16, Quarter Finals and Semi-Finals that decide who reaches the Champions League final.
• The Champions League campaign ends in style with the Champions League Final at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, on 30 May 2020.