Sevilla v Man Utd Price Boost – SportPesa

It’s Sevilla v Man Utd in the Champions League tonight and you don’t want to miss this SportPesa price boost! They’ve enhanced Man Utd to win from 8/5 to a tasty 9/4. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a risk-free potential profit of £4.47 and here’s how…

Price Boost bet:

The exact stake required for this price boost is £15.00.

The normal odds on Man Utd winning are 2.60. This means that if our bet wins, we’ll receive £39.00 in cash (normal odds) and a £9.75 free bet (price boost up to 3.25). We know we can extract 75% of any free bet as cash, so in this case £7.31, giving us total cash returns of £46.31 and effective back odds of 3.087. We’ll enter these into the calculator in a moment.

We can underlay Man Utd on the Betfair Exchange to make this offer risk-free.

We can calculate our underlay stake using my matched betting calculator. We just need to open up the ‘SHOW ADVANCED’ section and click the ‘UNDERLAY’ tab…

Select bet type

Back Bet (Bookie)

Advanced
%

Lay Bet (Betting Exchange)

%
Min £
Max £
Lay stake required: £
Bookie
Exchange
Cashback
Total
If back (bookie) bet wins
£
£
£
= £
If lay (exchange) bet wins
£
£
£
= £
Total profit: £

As you can see, the calculator tells us that our lay stake should be £15.79…

SportPesa logo

Place £15.00 on Man Utd to win @ 3.25 = Potential profit of £31.31

Betfair logo

Lay £15.79 on Man Utd to win @ 2.70 = Potential liability of £26.84

Outcomes:

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

Man Utd win + £31.31 – £26.84 = £4.47 profit
Man Utd don’t win – £15.00 + £15.00 (£15.79 minus 5% commission) = £0.00

So, if Man Utd don’t win, we’ll break even and there’s no harm done. However, if Man Utd do win, we’ll make a nice risk-free profit of £4.47 on this SportPesa price boost!

* The match was drawn 0-0, resulting in break even on this SportPesa price boost. *

Got a question?
Leave me a comment below

I usually respond within 24 hours.

Matt Kirman - Matched Betting Blogger

Matt KirmanMatched Betting Blogger

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