What happened at the top of the Championship in last night’s games?

Queens Park Rangers missed the chance to go above Bournemouth into 3^rd place in the Championship in a bad tempered goalless draw with Swansea. QPR went into the game as hot favourites after four straight wins, but Swansea are beginning to look more solid as Russell Martin continues to get them playing his possession based game, and they were good value for a point and a second straight clean sheet. QPR remain in 4^th spot in the Championship, 4 points behind second-placed Blackburn with a game in hand.

Cross-Bookings (settled at 1950)

While neither keeper was kept particularly busy in this match, the referee was, with three QPR players shown a yellow card and five Swansea, two of which went to Flynn Downes, who received his second in stoppage time after a tangle with Charlie Austin. Cross-Bookings, which multiplies the two teams’ bookings points together, therefore settled at 1950, and with the spread set at 380-440, buyers made a profit of 1510 times their bet.

Who else is looking good in the shake up to get promoted to the Premier League?

Nottingham Forest moved within one point of a playoff place with their 4^th successive win, beating bottom club Barnsley 3-0. Keinan Davis, Ryan Yates and Brennan Johnson scored the goals that moved Forest above Middlesbrough and right onto the tails of Huddersfield in the final playoff position. Barnsley, missing a number of first team players and head coach Poya Asbaghi through Covid, are rock bottom of the Championship table, 8 points adrift of safety.

Performance Superiority NF/Bar (Settled at 121)

This market awards points to each side depending on performance, then works out the difference between the two totals. Points are awarded as follows: 25 for winning the match, 15 per goa;, 10 for a draw, 10 for a clean sheet and 3 for a corner, with points taken away for cards, -5 for a yellow and -15 for a red. The spread was set at 37-42, meaning buyers or Forest superiority won 79 times their stake.

Who made it through to the semi-finals of the men’s Aussie Open?

Top seed Daniil Medvedev came from two sets down to claim the last place in the Australian Open semi-finals after a titanic battle with Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime. The number 2 seed – remember there is no number 1 after Novak Djokovic was forced out of the tournament – withstood everything the young Canadian had to throw at him, saving a match point in the 4^th set, before winning the decider to seal a 6-7 3-6 7-6 7-5 6-4 victory. Medvedev now plays Stefanos Tsitsipas for a place in the final.

X-Courts (settled at 161)

A five set marathon is perfect for buyers of this market, who love to see a long and close game to help push that total higher. The X-Courts market is made up the amount of games Medvedev wins multiplied by those won by Auger-Aliassime in each individual set. The total from each set is then aggregated to reach the X-Courts total. Before this match the spread was set at 85-93. Working out each sets’ total gives us 42+18+42+35+24 = 161. That means buyers won 68 times their stake.