OVER/UNDER 0.5 GOALS HELP

How does over/under 0.5 goals betting work?

Basically, this market involves betting on whether there will be more or less than 1 goal in a particular game. If you think there will be a goal in the game, you should bet on over 0.5 goals. If you think the game will finish goalless (0-0), then you should bet on under 0.5 goals.

How do I place an over/under 0.5 goals bet on KickOff?

Placing this type of bet on KickOff is incredibly easy, either as a single or part of an accumulator. To add the over 0.5 goals bet to your betslip click the odds under the “OVER 0.5” column and to add the under click the odds underneath “UNDER 0.5”.

If you’d like to participate in our competitions, leaderboards and rankings - including the top 0.5 goals tipsters - without risking money with a bookmaker, you can simply save the tip to KickOff by clicking the button next to the KickOff logo on your betslip.

Otherwise, select your bookmaker from the range of odds presented - the best odds for your single or accumulator will always be calculated and shown in descending order for each bookie. Click the icon next to their name and you’ll be taken to their site to complete your bet.

How do the over/under 0.5 goals stats work?

Our goals stats work in the same way across our goals markets (0.5, 1.5, 2.5 etc). The light green colour coding always represents over on the selected goals market and the dark blue shows the under. For the 0.5 market that means that over 0.5 goals (at least 1 goal) is represented by the light green colour, and under 0.5 goals (no goals or 0-0) by the darker colour.

Form

The form section shows stats such as goals scored and conceded as well as how many clean sheets a team has kept and how many separate matches they’ve managed to score in. If you’d like to see the results of individual matches and who they were against click “see results”.

League Table

KickOff’s League Table is a great way to see if a team performs differently against teams of different quality - for example, they might score loads of goals against teams towards the bottom of the league but completely dry up against those at the top. It might make them a good over 0.5 goals bet against struggling sides, but you might want to take the under when they come up against a top team.

The League Table shows you this with colour coded results - the home team’s results are on the left and the away team’s results are on the right. Results which finished with under 0.5 goals are coloured dark blue, while those that finished with over 0.5 goals are coloured light green.

xG

xG can be a useful metric to use for goals bets and WDW tips. xG shows the number of goals a team would have been expected to score (per match) based on the quality of the chances they’ve created.

Head to Head

Some teams when they get together just create the conditions for a certain type of match. It might be that both their attacks are set up perfectly to exploit weaknesses in the defence of the other and they always score loads of goals. It might be a local derby where both sides get tense, and every loose ball is so fiercely contested that there’s just no space for the attacking players to flourish that always ends 0-0. Looking at previous head to head form can be really useful in predicting what might happen. You can do that here.

What’s the Pro Menu?

The Pro Menu for over/under 0.5 goals lets you sort all matches by the likeliest to have over 0.5 goals and the likeliest to have under 0.5 goals. This is a fantastic tool if you’re looking to build an accumulator as you can easily see the games with the highest chance of winning. It’s also incredibly useful to pick out the games where the odds offer value relatively to how likely it is the bet will win.

In addition, the pro menu lets you filter teams to find streaks where teams have scored or conceded in 5 or more consecutive games. This is a great way to find potential value in matches by finding teams which are currently scoring more or fewer than usual - a fact which might not have been priced into their odds.