The "Win Both Halves" and "Half Time Full Time" markets, in football, are common bets that a lot of people get confused about.
It is an easy mistake to make, as the wording of the markets can lead you to believe that they are the same thing - when in fact they are completely different. As a result of this confusion, a lot of people have wrongly backed and layed the two different markets, which can result in a loss of money. The aim of this guide is to clarify and explain both of these markets.
Win Both Halves
In brief, the win both halves market means exactly that! Your team needs to win each half of the game, by any score. Let's look at an example of this to help clarify this point.
In this example, Liverpool is facing Real Madrid. We have backed and layed Liverpool to win both halves. So let's look at situations where the back bet would win and the then situations where the lay bet would win.
In this scenario, the first half is complete, and at halftime Liverpool are winning 1-0.
The second half is played and Liverpool score a further 2 goals to win the match 3-0. So, in effect, they have won the second half 2-0.
This means that the “Win Both Halves” bet will win as:
Liverpool won the first half 1-0
Liverpool won the second half 2-0
Indeed with this as long as Liverpool wins each half, so score more goals than Real Madrid do in each half, then the back bet will win.
So taking the previous example once more and Liverpool are leading 1-0 at halftime. Now this time around, there are no further goals in the second half so the game finished 1-0 to Liverpool. In this situation, even though Liverpool wins the game, your back bet will lose. Broken down this is because Liverpool failed to win both halves:
Liverpool won the first half 1-0
The second half was 0-0, therefore a draw
This means that Liverpool failed to win both halves and the lay bet, this time wins!
So essentially, with Win Both Halves, you need to split the football match in two and (in a sense) treat it as two separate results. The first result is the score at the end of the first half and the second result is the score at the end of the second half.
Half-Time/Full-Time
With this one, we will use this example, backing and laying Arsenal to be winning at half time and at full time against Bayern Munich. At halftime, Arsenal are winning 2-0, so at this stage, our back bet is still alive as they are leading at the halftime break. The second half finishes, and with it, the game finishes, and the final result is 2-1 Arsenal. In this situation, your back bet will win. This is because Arsenal was leading at halftime and also leading, so therefore won, at full time. In comparison to the win both halves market, if you backed the team to be winning at half time and full time, it does not matter if they lose the second half so long as they are leading at half time and go on to win the game.
So once again Arsenal are leading 2-0 at halftime. This time though, Bayern score 2 goals in the second half and draw 2-2 at full time. In this situation, the lay bet will win as Arsenal, although leading at halftime, failed to still be winning at full time.
We have a full training video on this here:
https://www.outplayed.com/offers/training/win-both-halves-ht-ft-markets/
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