In this case, the idea can be developed further: if a team is from a small town and plays in the third or fourth league, then it is easier to agree on a fake match. And an experienced bookmaker will be able to make good advertising and attract a lot of bets. But this, of course, would be a scam with great risk, and it can only be done successfully once or twice. And in this context, I will “paraphrase” one of the participants in our forum with his strategies for betting on an outsider.
Not a fake match but it's a sold one. Those type of matches truly happens in those type of leagues where the tier is for the lower ones. As a bettor, I'd avoid those type of leagues because they're prone to selling matches and your bet might not be justifiable if you lose it when you have the idea that it was once a sold game and your money doesn't even able to fight for it.
You can't do anything as the game can be manipulated by people who has a good control regarding to the game, something that we can't avoid to happen inside those small tier leagues, it's better if you can do your research and study those major leagues which can help you address every factors that you use when analyzing games, understanding and knowing both potential and edges by the team that you are following might help you plus knowing that big leagues is not prone that much with any possibility of fixed matches (not generalizing) as we can still hear rumors about some game fixing.
