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Ah, who doesn\u2019t love to see a good solid tackle in a football game!?<\/p>\nAh, who doesn\u2019t love to see a good solid tackle in a football game!?<\/p>\n
A wet pitch. A loose ball. Two players straining every sinew to get there first. In they slide with scant regard for anything else other than winning the ball (and maybe \u2018leaving a bit\u2019 on their opponent).<\/p>\n
Some will tell you that tackling has gone out of the modern game, with players more mindful to stay on their feet in an age of eyes in the sky, aka VAR. Maybe the standard of ball control is better these days \u2013 with fewer mis-controls and losses of possession, there\u2019s less opportunities for flying tackles to be made.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what the \u2018eye test\u2019 tells many observers of Premier League games and the like, but the stats suggest otherwise. During the 2022\/23 season, Leeds United were making an average of 22 tackles per game<\/a>, with a league-wide median per 90 minutes of around 17.<\/p>\n Fulham\u2019s Joao Palhinha was averaging 4.2 tackles per game on his own<\/a>, with 51 Premier League stars in total averaging two or more every 90 minutes.<\/p>\n With an average of ten fouls per game, per team as well, it\u2019s fair to say that those who say that physicality has gone out of modern football are wide of the mark.<\/p>\n All of which is good news for punters contemplating the merits of one of the fastest growing (in term of popularity) football \u2018prop betting\u2019 betting markets around: player and team tackles.<\/p>\n But plenty have, with the prop-favouring Bet365, William Hill, BetVictor and SkyBet just a selection of those that let you bet on match details in granular detail.<\/p>\n With many of these firms, you can even follow along with your tackles bets in real time \u2013 the bookies\u2019 live hub will typically show live updates for each of their prop categories during a game, be it tackles, shots, passes and so on.<\/p>\n If your chosen betting site doesn\u2019t offer this service as part of their in-play package, stats sites and apps like FotMob are a good choice if you want to track tackle numbers during the match.<\/p>\n For reference, there\u2019s generally three ways to bet on tackles in football:<\/p>\n The bookies compile their odds based on a variety of factors, which all feed into a sort of \u2018expected tackles\u2019 line \u2013 it could be the playing style of each team, the aggressive nature (or otherwise) of the players on show, past data, the magnitude of the match and so on.<\/p>\n As you can imagine, friendly games and one-sided matches are generally not great for betting on tackles.<\/p>\n Conversely, those encounters between two local rivals, a pair of front-foot teams or games where both teams need to win can be excellent value when you want plenty of tackles to be made.<\/p>\n But as you can see from the screenshot above, you can always bet on the \u2018unders\u2019 side of the bet if you think a team or player will be conservative in their playing style.<\/p>\n Now, we might instinctively feel as though we know what a tackle is, but we can be left disappointed or pleasantly surprised if OPTA see a coming together between two players as a tackle or not.<\/p>\nCan You Bet on Tackles in Football?<\/h2>\n
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It\u2019s true to say that, at the time of writing, not every UK-facing bookmaker has adopted tackles as one of their betting markets of choice.<\/p>\n\n
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<\/p>\nWhat is a Tackle in Football?<\/h2>\n
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Whenever you bet on a prop market in football, you are beholden to the rules and definitions of OPTA \u2013 the data firm that provides most UK licensed bookmakers with the stats they use to settled their customers\u2019 wagers.<\/p>\n
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