THERE was action aplenty in the Manchester City-Tottenham clash on Super Sunday. Goals, cards and refereeing controversy.
And if you’re one of the 132 Betfair punters to have backed a huge #OddsOnThat bet for the game too, you’d have been delighted to see plenty of CORNERS too.
So while most inside the Etihad were either celebrating Dejan Kulusevski’s late equaliser, booing Simon Hooper for denying a goal scoring opportunity, or watching Erling Haaland’s full time tantrum unfold, plenty of shrewd bettors were cheering a crazy amount of set pieces.
The bookmaker offered odds of 300/1 for both sides to accumulate 4+ in each half of the blockbuster clash.
That might not seem too many, but the general bet amongst the betting community would be for each side to be awarded four corners each in the entire half.
But this needed a huge effort from both sides in an attacking sense, hence the seismic odds.
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So there will have been one or two butterflies at half time when the hosts racked up six corners and Spurs hitting four in the opening 45 minutes.
It was a bit more tense in the second period but both sides miraculously both hit the magic number of four – and no more – in a pulsating second half.
That landed the bet for the aforementioned 132 punters who backed it, including one bettor who saw his £20 stake return a tremendous £6,020.
In total, 14 punters scooped at least £1,000 on this particular bet. Not bad three weeks before Santa comes!
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