Two PaddyPower punters were celebrating the madness of the African Cup of Nations last night having backed the curtain-raising match between hosts Angola and Mali to finish 4-4. It’s not the first time online bookmaker has been caught out by the outlandish scoreline with previous matches involving the likes of Liverpool and Arsenal forcing the bookmaker to revise the correct score odds from 500/1 to 350/1. However the bookmaker, with just £4 staked on the eight goal stalemate in Angola’s football match, is breathing a sigh of relief the £1400 payout wasn’t more.
Darren Haines, spokesman for paddypower.com, said: “The African nations does have a history for goals due to some leaky defences in tournaments past so perhaps this is one that got away for punters this time round.”
PaddyPower are also taking football bets at 10/1 that the 2010 tournament goes on to break it’s competition record of 99 goals whilst its 28/1 that the tournament record of nine goals in a match is broken (Egypt 6-3 Nigeria in 1963). The bookmaker is also betting on the biggest comeback for the remainder of the tournament offering 11/4 that a three goal deficit is over-turned, 16/1 for another four goal lead and 250/1 for five or more.
10/1 ACN to break its 99 goals record for the tournament
18/1 Nine or more goals to be scored in a match
28/1 Ten or more goals to be scored in a match
1/4 Two goals down
11/4 Three goals down
16/1 Four goals down
250/1 Five goals down or more |
