Away Cards Per Game Over 5.5 - Both Teams Combined
The total away cards per game over 5.5 per team, includes their's and their opponent's cards each game. Counting yellows, second yellows plus the red and straight reds
Away stats explained
On this page you'll find the stats for teams when they play away. The calculation still includes both teams in the fixture. But take Liverpool for example, this table shows the number of Liverpool away games that were over 5.5 cards combined.
Over 5.5 cards per game explained
This is a cards per game market and includes both playing teams in the calculation. There has to be at least 6 or more cards in the game for it to win and that doesn't matter if that's from both teams or just one team.
It's displayed as 5.5 because there has been some historical confusion over the interpretation because of other markets like 5 or more, which allows for an equals or greater than outcome. The over 5.5 market can not be mistaken in theory, we're not asking the punter to select an equal or over value, it's an over only value.
Card values for yellows and reds
There are two types of values when it comes to card betting. Some bookies use booking points for these types of markets, the principle still applies, you simple times the value by the points system in that case. But for this market most betting sites stick to a rule of thumb that a first yellow counts as 1 card and any type of red card (either second yellow or straight red) is counted as two cards.
How to bet on over 5.5 cards
Most sportsbooks normally have this in a specific section labeled cards within the fixture betting page. It's not a massively popular market so isn't normally prominent in the main betting section in the first couple of blocks, so you have to go looking for it. Also certain bookies don't offer card markets outside of the bigger leagues, so if you can't see it anywhere, its likely that its not on offer.
It's a yes or no bet, you find the fixture you want to bet on, find the over 5.5 section and you click yes or no to add the bet to your betting slip. Failing that you can normally find it in the modern bet builder functionality for those betting sites that have that available.