A football punter turned a £10 stake into £6,000 in winnings thanks to an incredible sequence of events.
The in-play punt was struck just 10 minutes into the 5.30pm kick offs on Saturday, when Brentford and Leverkusen already trailed to Nottingham Forest and Leipzig, respectively.
Both teams managed to secure dramatic comeback wins but that only told half the story of this bet, with FOUR come-from-behind wins and two injury-time goals needed to land the audacious punt.
The Bees took a 3-2 lead with a quarter of the game to go and managed to see it out to secure a big win for Thomas Frank.
Bundesliga leaders Leverkusen weren’t quite as simple as that, having to come from behind TWICE before a 91st minute Piero Hincapié goal sealed an important three points.
Brest were backed to beat Trelissac in the French Cup with the game already 10 minutes into the second period and surprisingly fell behind to the fourth-tier side on 75 minutes.
The visitors equalised a few minutes later before securing their passage to the next round with two minutes left on the clock.
Porto, Celta Vigo and Espanyol secured relatively straightforward successes to ease some of the tension.
Winning acca
£10 in-play with Ladbrokes
Date – 20/01/2024 —Time – 17:41:44
- Brentford to beat Nottingham Forest* – 2/1
- Bayer Leverkusen to beat RB Leipzig** – 18/5
- AC Milan to beat Udinese – 10/11
- Real Sociedad to beat Celta Vigo – 8/5
- Porto to beat Moreirense – 4/11
- Espanyol to beat Villarreal B – 8/15
- Brest to beat Trelissac*** – 4/6
- Kortrijk to score first goal of the game v St Liege – 9/5
*(Brentford 0-1 Nottm Forest at time bet was struck)
**(RB Leipzig 1-0 Bayer Leverkusen at time bet was struck)
*** (54 minutes into the game with scores level at 0-0 at time bet was struck)
TOTAL STAKE – £10
TOTAL RETURNS – £6,683.76
Kortrijk – bottom of the Belgian Pro League – were backed to score the opener against Standard Liege at 9/5 odds in what looked a speculative punt. Of course, that came in too.
Finallu, there was plenty of incidents on and off the park as Milan took on Udinese, with the latter holding a slender 2-1 lead with 15 minutes to play.
The punter had backed a Milan win and this later kick off looked set to burst the bet at the final hurdle, only for a Luka Jovic equaliser to arrive in the 83rd minute, before Noah Okafor’s dramatic 93rd minute winner, coming from a late, late corner.
That goal ensured a winning £10 acca, to the tune of a remarkable £6,683.76 in winnings.
Alex Apati of Ladbrokes said: “Our plucky punter took our traders on a trip around Europe on Saturday night, flexing their impressive footy knowledge in the process, having correctly predicted outcomes from games across no less than seven countries.
“And a European tour may well be on the cards with their winnings, but the first thing on their shopping list surely has to be a Noah Okafor shirt, as his last-gasp winner for Milan ensured the punchy eight-fold was a winner!”
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
