football | Tuesday, August 9, 2022 2:45 PM

Premier League Weekend Betting Roundup: How Pascal Gross Helped One Punter to £20k

Sam Ingram

The much-anticipated wait for Premier League football arrived with a bang at the weekend. Not only were we treated to twists and turns aplenty as expected, but a host of William Hill punters waded through the ten fixtures and ended up smelling of roses.

In this article:

Biggest Winning Bets and Most Popular Picks this Weekend
Market Movements
William Hill’s Weekend Offers and How They Played Out

Biggest Winning Bets and Most Popular Picks this Weekend

Standing out head and shoulders above the rest this weekend was one punter’s £100 bet on Pascal Gross to score a brace. The German only mustered two goals throughout the whole of last season in the Premier League, but one plucky Mystic Meg-type punter fancied Gross to rip up the rule book. That brace netted Meg £20k. Nice.

Not quite £20k, but not far off, another punter harnessed a season’s worth of luck and landed a well-travelled 11-fold accumulator on the opening weekend. The longshot priced up at just under £12k included matches in six different countries, from France, Belgium, and all the way to Japan.

Market Movements

After just one fixture apiece, not only are tounges wagging up and down the country, but prices of outright markets are changing across the board. Erling Haaland’s showing in the capital saw the Norweigan’s top scorer odds halved on the back of his imposing start to life in England, shifting from 11/4 to 11/8!

A byproduct of Haaland hitting the ground running, accompanied by Liverpool’s stuttering opener, also impacted the odds of lifting the title. Manchester City shortened from 4/7 to 8/15, already stamping their mark on the season. As expected, Jurgen Klopp’s Reds drifted out to 11/4 from 23/10 before kick-off.

Elsewhere, Arsenal’s impressive initial 45-minutes at Crystal Palace encouraged movement in the odds for a top-four finish. Punters clamoured to back Arteta’s men, with the 13/8 price coming into 11/10. Manchester United’s convincing loss to Brighton to begin Erik ten Haag’s reign undoubtedly influenced such a price shift.

William Hill’s Weekend Offers and How They Played Out

In the most popular treble of the weekend in Spurs, Newcastle, and Chelsea, 30% of you landed the successful trio online. Placing £10 on the fruitful treble would have returned £35 with the boost functionality of Acca Freedom – not bad at all. In what would have been a saviour for punters opting for a Liverpool, Spurs, and Chelsea treble, Acca Freedom would have also returned your £10 stake as a free bet.

Carrying on with what was popular for the masses – the Crystal Palace vs Arsenal curtain raiser made up a monstrous 96% of William Hill’s ‘Build Your Odds (BYO)’ activity. Highlighting where punters may perceive the value to be in the BYO function, 38% of you included a layer prop (player to score/shot on target/booking), whilst 56% contained ‘total goals’ in their BYO selections.

In what looked to be a given before a ball was kicked in anger, 40% of Saturday punters backed William Hill’s first generous EPIC ODDS promotion of the season. But, unfortunately, Liverpool failed to win, largely thanks to a Mitrovic double. In another unfortunate series of events, Just under 20% of our football customers were 2 Raheem Sterling shots on target away from landing a Double YourOdds bet in the match at Goodison Park. If Chelsea’s new number 17 provided the goods, he would have returned £110 off of a £10 stake!

The opening weekend is over and we’re already thinking about gameweek 2. Manchester City will take on AFC Bournemouth in one of the big matches of the week. Aston Villa take on Everton with former England pairing Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard leading these two sides out. Expect some EPIC ODDS from William Hill for these two matches and a Build Your Odds Bet & Get for the big London Derby as Chelsea host Spurs.

With newly-promoted Bournemouth visiting a firing Manchester City side and Nottingham Forest’s first Premier League game at the City ground since 1999, there’s more than enough for one to sink their teeth into this weekend. Good luck.