Cavan punter wins nearly €25k on AFCON goal drought

Punter won on low scoring matches

A canny Cavan punter is celebrating a sensational win after a mammoth football bet paid off in the shape of a five-figure payout.

The anonymous winner had placed a series of tiny €0.25 bets online with betting retailer BoyleSports, picking out 12 of the opening matches in the African Cup of Nations to feature less than two goals.

The prices on one goal or less in all matches ranged from 11/8 to 21/10. Incredibly nine of the 12 matches finished 1-0, while two finished 0-0.

Only Cameroon’s 2-1 victory over Burkina Faso featured more than one goal.

A €0.25 accumulator on the 11 correct selections returned €11,088.77, but the lucky winner also cashed in for €13,716 from a series of other tenfold accumulators.

That took their haul to an astonishing €24,804.77 from a total investment of just €19.75.

Its not the only good news story to arrive out of a lowly €0.25 stake, as earlier this week a Co. Cavan bettor placed a €0.25 cent Super Yankee to win €9,902.75 in the EuroMillions draw.

The customer selected the numbers 4, 9, 23, 33 and 44 to be drawn, and with four out of the five numbers rolling out of the machine, a big pay out was landed.

If all five numbers had landed, a mouth-watering amount of €170,256.50 would have been won.