Newcastle United joined Manchester United in finishing bottom of their Champions League group whilst a sensational away win from Rangers saw the Scottish club through to the last 16 of the Europa League.

There is plenty of British interest towards the head of the market in our Europa League odds with Liverpool the 9/4 favourites, Brighton 11/1, West Ham 18/1 and the Gers further back at 40/1.

In our Europa Conference League odds, Aston Villa are the 3/1 favourites from last year’s runners-up Fiorentina who are 11/2.

It isn’t all about European football though this week with plenty of cricket and racing taking place and big winning bets from all three sports are reviewed in our betting blog.

Please remember Spread betting carries a high level of risk to your capital and can result in losses larger than your initial stake/deposit. They may not be suitable for everyone so please ensure you fully understand the risks involved.

RAKOW CZESTOCHOWA v ATALANTA – RAK/ATA SUPREMACY (SETTLED AT -4)

In the last round of Europa League matches there was an interesting match from an online betting point of view last night in southern Poland as Atalanta travelled to play Rakow Czestochowa.

The match had opened as a ‘pick em’ on our Supremacy spread with the initial market at -0.1 – 0.1 but large amounts of money came for the Polish side who went off as 0.3-0.5 favourites on the Supremacy spread.

That money proved somewhat misplaced however, as Atalanta came away from Poland with a 4-0 win as they finished the group stage with 14 points. That result left football spread betting punters who had placed a sell bet with a win of 4.3x their stake.

INDIA WOMEN v ENGLAND WOMEN – ENGLAND 1^ST INNINGS RUNS (SETTLED AT 136)

England’s first Test series in India for 18 years hasn’t been going to plan for the women’s side who found themselves bowled out for just 136 runs in the first innings. The talismanic Nat Sciver-Brunt was the only one who was able to put any kind of score together as she reached 59 before being bowled out by Sneh Rana.

Five other English batswomen hit double figures, but none passed 20 runs as the tourists limped to a meagre total. Cricket spreads betters who placed a sell bet on the England 1^st Innings Runs at 350-365 were left celebrating a win of 214x their stake.

TAUNTON 14^th DECEMBER – SP LENGTHS (SETTLED AT 70.59)

There was an eight-race card at Taunton yesterday and there was a decent bit of profit for horse racing spread betting punters who sold on our SP Lengths market.

This spread is one of our newer ones and is SP of the race winner, multiplied by the distance to second and aggregated for the entire meeting. Before the off in the first yesterday, our traders had the spread at 159-177 but with five races being won by two lengths or less, sellers came out on top as the spread settled at 70.59 leaving them to walk away with a win of 88.41x their stake.

Please note that these are examples of winning bets from the past week, and it is important to remember that spread betting carries a high level of risk to your capital and can result in losses larger than your initial stake/deposit.