If you like to bet US sports, you should probably take a look at asian handicaps for soccer. Just like betting the spread in basketball e.g.
Look for odds movement for the spread and for the fixed odds (1-X-2) and you'll be able to get a pretty good idea about which way the game is leaning. If they correlate you may have found a winner. My personal opinion is that it's better to back favourites in soccer, since it usually takes just one goal for a team to win.
-0.5, -0.75 and -1 are the most sensible spreads to begin looking for.
every league has Top 3 or 4 teams that just keep winning every fukking week over and over again. anytime you think there may be an upset the fukking good team scores in the 90th minute. everytime. i think there's maybe one or two upsets each year it's so ridiculous.
betting parlay is very good, you win more but if you lose one game you lose the parlay . That is why i bet straight, one game a time. i chose about 10 or more games , make combination between them and i still have profits. Sometimes not to much but is better then loosing .pinnacle have better odds for straight, also i use betfair.