Football Predictions – Three Stages To Success
Here are the three stages to taking your football predictions and turning them into successful bets.
Your Football Predictions
The first thing you need is a prediction, maybe you know who is playing today, maybe you don’t.
If you do it would be good to write down your feelings for say 5 matches.
If you don’t know who is playing you can always visit our latest free tips for ideas, check your sports news website of choice or log into one of your betting websites like Bet365 to see what bets they are accepting today. Again, write down your feelings for about 5 matches.
Getting Information for Your Football Predictions
Next up you need to get information to help support your predictions, this can take several forms, I will outline some of them here for you;
Support Your Football Predictions with Team News
People get injured at the last minute, changes get made to the team before kick off, people fall out with other people.
There is so much constantly happening that could change what your prediction should be that it really does pay to keep up to date with team news.
One thing we provide with our members tips is team news, from people local to where the league is, which is really useful. Of course you don’t need to sign up with us to get team news!
You could check out the Twitter feed of both teams, or their official website.
You could read what the pundits are saying hours before a match.
Verify Your Football Predictions with Local and General News
Similar to team news is using local news to help with your football predictions, what I mean by this is what is the weather like? Does one teams goal keeper always have a terrible match when it rains? What is the stadium like, does the away team have a good record at at?
This type of information is especially important for international matches with either international teams or teams normally based in one country playing in another.
Find other People’s Opinion on Your Football Predictions
It never hurts to get a second (or third, or fourth) opinion on what way you think things are going to go. One of the things I love about this site is the comments we get from our readers with their predictions, it is totally free to post a comment asking for advice and you can be guaranteed people will have advice for you :-)
Other places you can check out are things like Reddit and football message boards.
Getting the best odds for your football predictions
Now that you have your football predictions you should be in a good position to place your bet, but don’t go off to the first bookies you see and put down your money, shop around and see who is offering the best odds, often times you can make your money go further by finding even slightly better odds in on place.
Bonus Fourth Step – Get some football predictions live!
Sometimes a match could have already started before you decide to bet on it, sometimes you think it is too close to call before the game starts so you want to wait until say half time before you place any bets.
Most bookies will allow you to bet in game now and there are plenty of places that will help you do in play betting.
Over to you!
These are just my humble opinions and what I (Toby) do. I would love to hear if you think I am doing something wrong or if you do something differently, please let me know in the comments below :-)