Manchester City fans might have been celebrating Sergio Agüero’s hat-trick in the Champions League victory over Borussia Mönchengladbach, but Liam Fitzpatrick wasn’t content until Kelechi Iheanacho found the net in stoppage time.
The Liverpool-based punter had £2 on a very specific bet – 125/1 on Agüero scoring three and City winning by four goals to nil against their German opponents.
Iheanacho’s late strike earned him a tidy £250, but that was just the icing on the cake – earlier in the week he had won £900 betting on Romelu Lukaku to score all three goals in Everton’s 3-0 win at Sunderland.
He got the odds through Sky Bet‘s ‘Request A Bet’ feature, and he tells JOE he is now more than £1,000 up from the feature after staking just a tenner.
Is @LiamFitzy9 the king of #RequestABet? He's definitely been #bettingbetter this week! pic.twitter.com/j98M4NiFjb
— Sky Bet (@SkyBet) September 14, 2016
“I had three Request A Bets, one on Monday, one on Tuesday and one on Wednesday, and got two out of three right,” Fitzpatrick recalls.
‘The other one was Suarez to score a hat-trick and Barcelona to win 5-0 – I wasn’t too far away on that too.”
He tells us the Lukaku bet marks one of his biggest ever wins from a football bet, though he had a big win on the horses a few years ago, and that it’s not uncommon for him to get an added bonus whenever the Toffees pick up all three points.
“Every weekend I bet on Everton to win and Liverpool to lose,” he says, and his next Request A Bet falls into the latter camp.
“For tonight’s game I’ve got Costa to score twice and get booked, both teams to score and Chelsea to win – Sky Bet have offered me 20/1, because they said they’re running scared of me.”
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While he admits he is probably down overall from betting on sport, he isn’t going to let the big win get to his head.
He’ll stay on his usual path, betting small amounts here and there, often when out at the pub with friends. And anyway, as he tells us, “I’ve got too many Twitter followers to stop now!”
“I gained 1,400 Twitter followers [after Sky Bet tweeted out the winning bets],” he says.
“They’re asking me for lottery numbers, whether it’s going to snow on Christmas Day.”
Naturally we asked him what he thought on both of those counts, but he wasn’t going to give away his secrets that easily.
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