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Selecting Over 2.5 Goals
There are many crucial factors that go into selecting under or over 2.5 goals. Take a team like Chelsea as an example. At home, they are generally defensively sound. Over the past 3 or 4 years, they have won most of their home games, and if you look at the score lines, more often than not they end 1-0 or 2-0 (with a growing number of 6-0s). We basically need to match teams that score and concede quite a few goals... or teams with awful defensive records and more obviously, teams who score 3 or 4 a game.

I am going to show you how I make uses of various statistics and results to select these. I use http://www.soccerway.com as the site and I've only come across this recently. It makes life far easier because the results are right at your fingertips. For those who are unaware, OVER 2.5 GOAL betting involves betting on games to have 3 or more goals in total.

The System and the Odds
The first rule of this system is that we are betting on odds from 1.60 to 2.20. You may not bet on anything below 1.60 and you may not exceed 2.20. The system will work and profit with virtually all of the major leagues. The English Premiership and Championship, Italian Serie A, Spanish Primera, German Bundesliga, French Ligue 1, Dutch Eredivisie, Scottish Premiership. It will work on other leagues, but I recommend sticking to the above ones. They are the most widely covered and they are generally more consistent.

I don't play outside of those leagues, but I have tried the system on a few others such as the Japanese J-League, MLS, the Brazilian league and the system still functions properly. After the rule regarding the odds being between 1.60 and 2.20, there is another crucial one that you need to stick to. You may NOT use a specific team more than two times in a row.

Let us say that we are betting on Manchester City to be over 2.5 goals in a game on October 5th... and it ends over 2.5. We then bet on them to be over 2.5 goals for the following game on October 12th... if that too is successful, you may not bet on them for the 3rd in a row. It is just to play against the laws of averages and in my experience I have had success applying this. Eventually, even if it goes against statistics, it WILL end under 2.5 at some stage, even if stats say there should be goals.

Selection Process: I will describe my selection process in a brief summary and then I will elaborate on every aspect.

Let us say we are using ‘Manchester City vs. Tottenham'.

We need to look at the previous 3 home game scores of the home side – Goal totals need to be calculated specifically.
We need to look at the previous 3 away game scores of the away side – Goal totals need to be calculated specifically.
The betting odds need to be between 1.60 and 2.20 for the over 2.5 goals market. There are one or two ‘finer' rules that I will explain at the end. Let us put this example into action. See below:
Go to http://www.soccerway.com . On the left hand side, you will see most of the main countries and when you click on there, the leagues will be listed. Otherwise at the top you can click on the National Leagues tab and you will see a drop down box of virtually every nation in the world. This site houses statistics for everything and it really is excellent.

Click on PREMIERSHIP on the left hand side.

Now, I am going to use an example of one of the selections that we had for last weekend, which was Manchester City vs. Tottenham Hotspurs. The game was an over 2.5 Goal selection and the game ended 1-2. It could have been an even higher scoring game if it wasn't for the red card in the first half which tightened up the game a bit. Now, we are dealing with Man City and Spurs.

As you can see, you are given a few overall records as well as Head 2 Head and the finally the previous 7 or 8 games. Look at the bottom two tabs what you need to do, is click the 'Home' and 'Away' for the respective teams. Seeing Manchester City are the home side, click ‘Home' for them and seein