A point spread in football betting is a way for bookmakers to come up with a matchup between 2 rather unbalanced teams. The idea of this is to make them more balanced by giving points to or removing points from each team involved in a bet. Let’s say the favourite in a match up is indicated with a minus symbol (-) and will have some points subtracted, while the weaker team can be recognised with the plus (+) symbol and will have a few points added to the end result. This way the teams will need to win by the point spread of the bookie. The punter wins in this case if this team wins the match outright or loses by a smaller amount than the point spread suggested by the bookie.