07.03.13 Thursday Morning

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Football

The British clubs may be struggling in the Champions League, but there’s plenty of interest in the Europa League and we’ll be trading all eight of tonight’s (Thursday’s) matches in-play including Chelsea’s journey to Steaua Bucharest (Chel/Stea 0.4-0.6), Tottenham’s clash with Inter (Tott/Int 0.65-0.85) and Newcastle’s trip to Anzhi (Anz/New 0.9-1.1). 

The FA Cup is the main highlight of the weekend’s action as we reach the quarter-finals. 

At 12.45 on Saturday Everton meet Wigan at Goodison Park in an all-Premiership affair. Will the home side prove too strong for the visitors? We have Everton at 4/9 for the win, Wigan at 6/1 and the draw 10/3.

At 17.30 Man City take on Barnsley. The Tykes saw off the MK Dons to set up this match, but will it be the end of the road for them? Our Supremacy quote is Man City/Barnsley 2.5-2.7

The two o’clock game on Sunday sees Blackburn traveling to London as they face Millwall. The Lions scored three in the last round. We’re quoting their Total Goals at 1.3-1.5 here. 

The pick of this round’s matches is on Sunday at 16.30 as Man Utd host Chelsea. Will Man Utd triumph here and put the midweek defeat by Real Madrid out of their system? Our Supremacy quote is Man Utd/Chelsea 0.6-0.8. 

There are also six matches in the Premier league this week. These games include: Norwich v Southampton, QPR v Sunderland, Reading v Aston Villa, West Brom v Swansea, Newcastle v Stoke and Liverpool v Tottenham. 

The Champions League continues next week and our Supremacy prices are: Barcelona v AC Milan (Bar/Mil 1.7-1.9), Schalke/Galatasaray (Sha/Gal 0.7-0.9), Bayern v Arsenal (Bay/Ars 1.4-1.6) and Malaga v Porto (0.1 Choice). 

And don’t forget about our Take Your Money feature allowing you to close out of your fixed odds bets in-play. Find out more here. 

See all our latest football spread bettingand football fixed odds betting prices here. 


Horse Racing

This year’s Cheltenham Festival gets underway on Tuesday and we are now live with our Festival markets and non-runner no bet on all fixed odds prices.

Highlights include Festival Favourites 236-256, Festival Distances 102-112, Biggest Winning SP 47-48.5 and Irish Trained Winners x10 79-83 to name a few. 

Horses leading the betting for the highlight of the jumps season include the likes of Hurricane Fly who is 2/1 for the Champions Hurdle, Sprinter Sacre who is 1/4 for the Queen Mothers Chase and Oscar Whisky who is 3/1 in the World Hurdle.

We are also offering prices for other upcoming races. Don’t see a price for a horse in a particular race that you are interested in? 

Then simply email us at antepost@spreadex.com stating the horse and the race in question and we will get back to you with a price.  

Don’t forget that we are now offering an Unnamed Favourite market on each horse race. This allows you to place a bet on whichever horse is the starting price favourite at the off. Note that if the favourite is nominated and two or more runners start at the shortest odds, then stakes are equally divided over the ‘joint’ or ‘co’ favourites created. So, if you place £10 on ‘Unnamed Favourite’ and there are two favourites, you will get a £5 bet on each of them. 

Click here to see all our horse racing spread betting and horse racing fixed odds prices. 


Rugby

Six Nations rugby takes centre stage again this weekend as the action heats up in this year’s competition. 

On Saturday at 14.30 Scotland host Wales. Out of the last 21 times these two have met the Welsh have been victorious on 13 occasions. We’re quoting Supremacy at Wales/Scotland 4-7. 

At 17.00 Ireland host France at the Aviva Stadium. Both sides go in to this one on the back of defeats last time out and will be looking for the win here. We have Ireland at 10/11 for the victory, France at Evens and the draw 18/1.

On Sunday England continue their quest for the Grand Slam as they look to make it four wins out of four. Our Supremacy quote here is England/Italy 26-29. 

We will also be covering the Rugby League, French Top 14, NRL, Super Rugby and RaboDirect Pro12. 

Click here to see all our latest rugby spread betting and rugby fixed odds prices. 


Cricket

England’s Test series with New Zealand is now underway with the visitors making a terrible start in Dunedin. England only managed a total of 167, their lowest in the first innings of a Test match since 2009. 

The hosts are currently 131 without loss. How many runs will they go on to get? We are currently quoting New Zealand Runs at 417-432.

Elsewhere, we will also be covering the action in the first ODI between South Africa and Pakistan.

 

Click here to see all our latest Cricket spread betting and Cricket fixed odds betting prices. 


Darts

The Premier League season is now well underway and as usual we will have in-running prices on all five clashes this evening (Thursday) in Nottingham.

The highlights this week include James Wade and Robert Thornton, where our Total 180’s quote is 5.5-6 and Wes Newton v Simon Whitlock, where our 10-3 Supremacy quote is Newton/Whitlock 4-7. 

Click here to see all our latest darts spread betting and darts fixed odds prices. 


Golf

The main focus of this week’s golf comes from the TPC Blue Monster at Doral in Miami, Florida for the Cadillac Championship. Defending champion Justin Rose will be hoping to repeat last year’s success, but will face competition from Tiger Woods, Luke Donald and Phil Mickelson to name a few. 

We also have coverage of the Puerto Rico Open where Luke Guthrie currently leads the away in the betting. 

Click here to see our golf spread betting and golf fixed odds betting prices.

F1

The new F1 season is nearly upon us as the new season gets underway in Australia next week.

Our Long term prices are now live. Do you think Sebastian Vettel has what it takes to defend his title? We have him at 34-37 on our Drivers’ Championship index. British interest comes in the form of Jenson Button 18-21 and Lewis Hamilton 16-19.

Click here to see all our latest F1 spread betting and F1 fixed odds betting prices.

Other sports
 

Elsewhere, there will also be prices on the NBA, Indian Wells Tennis and Dancing on Ice.