ONE genius punter made it a midweek football card to remember with a life-changing win.
The Champions League made its return, while the Carabao Cup, Championship and Scottish Premiership made it punting heaven in a bonus bumper card.
With the huge number of games across Tuesday and Wednesday, it played right into this Sky Bet customer’s hands and their 18-fold acca landed a quite stunning £69,000 pay out!
And in a week of both teams to score heaven and nine-goal thrillers, it was somehow 18 teams to WIN that they’d managed to predict.
It all started with the two early European games on Tuesday where they’d successfully predicted Aston Villa and AEK Athens to get up and running with three points.
The likes of Real Madrid and Manchester City duly obliged to keep the bet rolling over to Wednesday.
Short priced PSG and Barcelona weren’t too much of a concern, while Celtic managed to hold on to scrape a 1-0 win at St Johnstone.
But despite the ups and down of 24 hours of football, it looked like all coming crashing down when a much-changed Chelsea found themselves 2-0 down to Leeds in the Carabao Cup after 48 minutes.
Sky Bet punter’s winning bet
Full acca
- Borussia Dortmund v Villarreal – Borussia Dortmund (1.75)
- Club Brugge v Aston Villa – Aston Villa (2.62)
- Lille v Real Betis – Real Betis (3.20)
- Porto v Manchester City – Manchester City (1.61)
- Real Madrid v Inter Milan – Real Madrid (1.53)
- AEK Athens v LASK Linz – AEK Athens (1.73)
- Bournemouth v Lincoln – Bournemouth (1.20)
- Crystal Palace v Middlesbrough – Crystal Palace (1.80)
- Millwall v Newcastle – Newcastle (1.40)
- Bolton v West Ham – West Ham (1.57)
- Barcelona v Feyenoord – Barcelona (1.07)
- Stuttgart v Viking – Stuttgart (1.22)
- Napoli v Arsenal – Arsenal (1.67)
- Paris Saint-Germain v Slovan Bratislava – Paris St-G (1.03)
- Sporting Lisbon v Galatasaray – Sporting Lisbon (1.80)
- Chelsea v Leeds – Chelsea (1.60)
- St Johnstone v Celtic – Celtic (1.50)
- Moreirense v Benfica – Benfica (1.20)
- STAKE: £20
- RETURNS: £69,676,98
Four half time changes from Xabi Alonso ensured the Blues kicked into gear and within 17 minutes of going two down, they suddenly found themselves two up at 4-2.
Nerves would’ve arisen again when Dominic Calvert-Lewin made it 4-3 with a quarter of an hour to play, before two more goals sealed a stunning 6-3 Chelsea win.
And a £69,676,98 win for this lucky punter!
Robert Carr, Head of Trading at Sky Bet, said: “That’s some accumulator to land – 18 selections and every single one coming through.
“There was plenty of drama along the way, particularly with some of Wednesday night’s results, so I’m sure it was a nervy watch for the customer!
“To turn £20 into almost £70,000 is a seriously impressive result. Fair play to them!”
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