{"id":1692,"date":"2022-12-05T09:56:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T09:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top10bettingsites.co.uk\/?page_id=1692"},"modified":"2022-12-05T09:56:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T09:56:42","slug":"offside-betting-can-you-bet-on-offsides-in-a-match","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rulesofsport.com\/betting\/football\/offside-betting-can-you-bet-on-offsides-in-a-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Offside Betting: Can You Bet on Offsides in a Match?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OffsideIn the 2020’s, the trend was for American gambling firms \u2013 in the wake of widespread legalisation of betting in the country \u2013 to double-down on their efforts by acquiring British bookmakers.<\/p>\n

That was the case when Caesars Entertainment forked out \u00a32.9 billion to buy the intellectual property of William Hill, and why MGM Resorts turned to Entain (home of Coral, Ladbrokes etc) to help them get their betting site and app off the ground.<\/p>\n

But the American sports betting sector has given back to the UK market by inspiring a range of new \u2018prop\u2019 bets in football. With firms like bet365 and Ladbrokes, you can wager on pretty much anything these days \u2013 corners, cards, throw ins, tackles, shots\u2026 odds are offered for pretty much anything that can happen out on the pitch.<\/p>\n

And betting on offsides in a game is just the latest development.<\/p>\n

How to Bet on Offside In Football<\/h2>\n

\"Offside<\/p>\n

A number of different firms are offering odds on offside, so have a scout around if this is something that might interest you.<\/p>\n

Bet365 were one of the first to offer prices on total offsides in a game, and they let you bet on the number of offsides you think there will be for either team or combined.<\/p>\n

Ladbrokes, meanwhile, offer player offsides in some cases, but both firms generally only price up the biggest games, such as the Premier League or La Liga contests involving Real Madrid and Barcelona.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll often find the offsides market listed under a website’s Bet Builder tab. You can back over\/under too just as you would with goals, cards and corners, and bet on combined tallies or offsides per team.<\/p>\n

Do Bookies Go with VAR When Settling Bets?<\/h2>\n

\"VAROffside is one of the rules of football most impacted by the addition of VAR technology.<\/p>\n

With the use of video technology and the lines they use to determine offside calls, these days a striker can be deemed offside when a curly knee hair is in front of the last defender \u2013 the days of giving the attacking team the benefit of the doubt are long gone.<\/p>\n

The key thing to note from a betting perspective is that all UK bookmakers settle their bets based upon the official OPTA stats, and they, in turn, will update their statistics accordingly when an offside is given by VAR after initially being missed by the on-field officials.<\/p>\n

So the bookies will ultimately bow down to VAR when settling bets, which could be good news for backers of the \u2018overs\u2019 in the offsides market.<\/p>\n

Offside Betting Tips and Strategy<\/h2>\n

\"Tips\"Like throw ins, free kicks and the like, offside is one of those betting markets where there\u2019s more logic and reason to it than you might think. Here is what we mean.<\/p>\n

Using data from the excellent resource fbref.com<\/a>, we can see which Premier League teams (for the period August-November 2022) have been offside the most, and which have triggered the most offsides.<\/p>\n

Most times offside:<\/p>\n