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First Goalscorer explained

A bet on a named player to open the scoring — high variance, high margin, and highly dependent on penalties and minutes.

First goalscorer pays only if your player scores the first goal of the match. It is the anytime market with an extra coin flip on top: not just 'will he score' but 'will his goal come first' — which multiplies variance and, conveniently for the bookmaker, the margin baked into every price.

Penalty takers and early-minute starters dominate the honest shortlist. A super-sub who scores plenty but enters at 70 minutes is structurally terrible here, whatever his anytime numbers look like.

Worked example

If a player's anytime chance is 38% and his team is equally likely to score first or second, his first-scorer chance is roughly half the share of match first-goals his team owns — often 15–18%, fair odds 5.50–6.60. Books routinely quote 4.50: a double-digit margin hiding in plain sight.

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First Goalscorer explained

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