Asian Handicap Betting In Football

Asian Handicap or Asian Odds betting is the most common betting style for football (soccer) among Asian countries. This type of betting is very common in Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, China, and Malaysia. This type of betting style is getting more popular around the world as it is different from the normal Home Win, Draw or Away Win outcome . In Asian Handicap Betting, handicap are given by the stronger team to a weaker team. The handicap will give both team an "equal" start to the game. The handicap is supposed to eliminate the disadvantages of the weaker team, thus making both team have the "equal" chance to win the game.

Handicap are based on several factors:
1) Home ground advantage
2) Current team form / performance
3) Starting eleven. Availability of star players.

Lets take an example:
In the match between AC Milan vs Torino, AC Milan might give a handicap of -1.5 goal to Torino.
We will take AC Milan final score to subtracted 1.5 goal to get the outcome of the bet. Let say that AC Milan beat Torino 2-0, the final score after subtracting 1.5 goal from AC Milan final score. AC Milan still win by a 0.5 goal margin, thus punters who choose AC Milan win their bet. However, if the final score is 1-0, AC Milan lose the bet.

So Asian Handicap bring the question of " Will AC Milan win by more than 1.5 goals" rather than the question of "Home win, Draw or Away Win".

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