Coral Free Bet Offer – Liverpool v Manchester City

Another fantastic Coral free bet offer.  If Manchester City beat Liverpool in the Premier League on Sunday, Coral will refund all losing First/Last Goalscorer and Correct Score bets as a free bet up to a maximum of £25.00.  Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a potential profit of £7.65!  And here’s how…

When doing these Coral free bet offers, I always prefer to stick to the correct score market and we need to select a correct score that isn’t a Manchester City win.  This ensures that if Manchester City win, we will qualify for the free bet as our initial bet will have lost.  Having looked at the odds on offer, I’ve opted for a 3-1 Liverpool win.

 

Step 1:

coral

Place £25.00 on 3-1 Liverpool @ 19.00 = Potential profit of £450.00

betfair

Lay £22.67 on 3-1 Liverpool @ 21.00 = Potential liability of £453.40

Step 2:

Let’s have a look at our current potential profit/loss for the following outcomes…

 

3-1 Liverpool +£450.00 – £453.40 = £3.40 loss
Not 3-1 Liverpool + Man City win -£25.00 + £21.54 + £18.75 (extract 75% from our £25.00 free bet) = £15.29 profit
Not 3-1 Liverpool + Man City don’t win -£25.00 + £21.54 = £3.46 loss

 

So as things stand we will make £15.29 profit if Manchester City win.  Unfortunately, we also stand to lose a maximum of £3.46 if they don’t win and so we need to insure ourselves against this by laying Manchester City at Betfair.

 

Step 3:

As £3.46 is the maximum we stand to lose, we need to work out our lay stake by taking commission into consideration. £3.46 / 0.95 = £3.64.

betfair

Lay £3.64 on Manchester City @ 3.10 = Potential liability of £7.64

Let’s have a look at our resulting potential profit/loss for the following outcomes…

 

3-1 Liverpool -£3.40 + £3.46 = £0.06 profit
Not 3-1 Liverpool + Man City win +£15.29 – £7.64 = £7.65 profit
Not 3-1 Liverpool + Man City don’t win -£3.46 + £3.46 = £0.00

 

If Manchester City don’t win, we will break even, so no harm done.  If they do get the better of Liverpool, we will make a nice profit of £7.65!  Easy!

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Since 2014, I’ve blogged over £70,000 worth of profit, and made it my mission to make matched betting accessible to everyone.