A Madrid derby to die for, a surprising Rugby Championship stalemate and a remarkable World Matchplay comeback feature in our Daily Spread Betting Roundup.

A game with everything – Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid
If only derbies in the season-proper could be like this. Meeting in the International Champions Cup, Real and Atletico went WILD in New Jersey, a game that featured everything: 10 goals, 2 red cards, 2 penalties and a quadruple for Diego Costa.

That, of course, made it an absolute goldmine for spread betters. On the most basic level, Atletico were the underdogs, going into the fixture at a win match binary spread of 25-30.8. That meant their eventual 7-3 victory gifted savvy punters 69.2 times their initial stake.

As for the burly Costa, he started a SMM spread of 12-16, only for his 4 goals to produce a make-up of 243. That’s 227 times your initial stake.

Thanks to the game’s 2nd spot kick coming in the 85th minute, the Penalty SMMs make-up hit 215 against an opening spread of just 21-25.

Red cards for Daniel Carvajal and Costa – the former Chelsea-forward was a busy, busy boy – contributed to a rather large Cross Bookings make-up of 1575. And even with the original price at 550-630, that’s still 945 times your opening stake.

Finally, those 10 goals pushed the Total Goal Minutes make-up to 455 against an original spread of 144-154. However, that was nothing compared to the Goals x Shirts make-up of 1590; lop off the starting spread of 203-226, and that’s 1364 times your initial stake.


Springboks stalemate for All Blacks – 2019 Rugby Championship
Once again South Africa showed they had the formula for frustrating the All Blacks, a 79th minute try from Herschel Jantjies – who now has 3 in his 2 international appearances for the Springboks – and subsequent conversion from Handre Pollard causing the points to be shared in Wellington.

That unlikely result meant you could have made 94.1 times your initial stake if you had opted for a Draw binary spread of 0.4-3.9.


Cross rebounds all the way to 1st title – 2019 World Matchplay
It looked like Rob Cross was on his way out of the 2019 World Matchplay, down 15-9 against no. 3 seed Daryl Gurney in the semi-finals. However, that sparked a fire under Voltage, who picked up 8 consecutive legs, booking his place in a final that he eventually won against Michael Smith.

At his lowest point, Cross had fallen to a hopeless to win binary spread of just 0.1-4.4. If you had faith in the Englishman, you could have won 95.6 times your opening stake.