Weekly Sports Update

19.03.15 Thursday Morning



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Rugby

It's the deciding weekend of the Six Nations with England, Ireland and Wales all in with a chance of claiming the title on Saturday.

Wales start the day at Italy at 12.30pm, Ireland then play Scotland at Murrayfield at 2.30pm before England host France at 5pm with all the matches live on BBC1.

Our outright prices have the favourites as England at 8/11, Ireland 9/5 and Wales 11/2 while our spread betting Points Supremacy prices for the matches are Wales/Italy (h) 26 – 29, Ireland/Scotland (h) 8 – 11 and England/France 9 – 12.

We'll also have in-play betting on the Super Rugby and the Saracens v Exeter LV= Cup Final plus selected games in the Super League and NRL for rugby league.


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Football

Sole British European representatives Everton take a 2-1 lead to Dinamo Kiev in the Europa league for a 6pm kick-off on ITV4 tonight (Thursday), with the Toffees 8/15 to qualify and the hosts 11/8 to make it through to the quarter-finals.

At the weekend we'll have in-play fixed odds and spread betting on every Premier League and La Liga game including Liverpool v Man United at 1.30pm on Sky Sports 1 and Barcelona v Real Madrid at 8pm on Sky Sports 1, both on Sunday. 

For the Anfield clash, our traders are favouring Liverpool with the hosts 11/10, the Red Devils 13/5, the draw 12/5 and our spread betting Goal Supremacy price Liverpool/Man United 0.3 – 0.5.

Our traders think Sunday's huge El Classico is going to be a fiery affair with our Bookings quote (10 points per yellow, 25 per red, max 35 per player) at a whopping 84 – 88.


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Tennis

We're into the quarter-finals of the first Tour Masters 1000 event of the season, the BNP Paribas Open from Indian Wells, America.

Andy Murray faces Feliciano Lopez – who upset fifth seed Kei Nishikori in the last round – at 8pm tonight (Thursday) on Sky Sports 3. We've gone industry best price 2/5 that the match will only last two sets.

The other quarter finals see Djokovic v Tomic, Federer v Berdych and Nadal v Raonic while in the women's draw it's Tsurenko v Jankovic and Lisicki v Pennetta in the quarter-finals and Williams v Halep in the semis.

We'll also have live coverage from ATP Kazan and have outright prices out for the French Open in May.


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Cricket

India cruised through to join South Africa in the semi-final stages of the Cricket World Cup by dumping Bangladesh out of the competition earlier today.

Next up are the remaining two quarter-finals as Australia take on Pakistan and New Zealand face the West Indies.

The joint-hosts are both strongly fancied to make it through with Australia 1/5 to win their clash and New Zealand 3/10 and our spread betting Supremacy prices for both matches Australia/Pakistan 42 – 52 and New Zealand/West Indies 29 – 39.


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Horse Racing

After all the fun of the Cheltenham Festival, the Grand National Meeting looms on the horizon taking place at Aintree from April 9th to 11th.

For the big race itself on the Saturday, A.P. McCoy – on his last-ever National appearance – rides the favourite; Shutthefrontdoor at 8/1. Other contenders on our Antepost prices feature Rocky Creek at 11/1, The Druids Nephew at 12/1, Balthazar King 14/1, Spring Heeled 18/1 and Godsmejudge 20/1.

Before that we have Antepost prices out for the Dubai World Cup and the Lincoln Handicap at Lingfield at the end of the month.

Remember you can play on our new Place Only, Insurance Betting and Betting Without Named Horse markets alongside our Win Only, Each-Way, Accumulator, Multiple, Forecast and Tricast selections.

For our horse racing spread betting markets, we have now added new Binary Markets where each horse is given a spread based on the market making up at 100 if the horse wins or 0 if it doesn't.


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Darts

World champion Gary Anderson makes his first appearance in Scotland since claiming the PDC title at the start of the year when he takes on Kim Huybrechts in Glasgow in the latest round of action in the Premier League of darts this evening.

The Scot is the 4/7 favourite to win, with Huybrechts 10/3, the draw 17/4 and our spread betting 10-3 Leg Supremacy price Anderson/Huybrechts 7 – 10.

Other matches tonight feature; Wade v Lewis, Wright v Bunting, van Barneveld v Taylor and Chisnall v van Gerwen.


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Golf

The big names of the golfing world continue their preparations ahead of the Masters next month and this weekend the focus is on the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

For Masters favourite Rory McIlroy (5/1), it's the first time he's played this particular tournament and will be his last competitive start before journeying to Augusta for the April 9th major.

McIlroy is 11/2 favourite for the Arnold Palmer Invitational ahead of Henrik Stenson at 15/2 and Adam Scott and Jason Day, both 16/1 shots. Masters second favourite Bubba Watson (10/1) has withdrawn from this weekend's action after the death of a childhood friend.

We'll also have coverage this weekend on the Madeira Islands Open, Tucson Classic and Investec Cup.


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Snooker

The Snooker Grand Prix, from Cymru, Wales, is down to the last 16 with coverage on ITV4.

Ronnie O'Sullivan, Mark Selby and Neil Robertson are among the players to progress from round one, however, Shaun Murphy and John Higgins both crashed out.

Today's action includes Ricky Walden v Mark Williams. 
 

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Politics

George Osborne delivered an upbeat Budget speech this week, however there has been little change in the spread betting prices for the May 7th General Election following Tuesday's announcement of proposed packages.

The Conservatives' number of predicted seats remains at 281 – 287 while Labour are up slightly from 269 – 275 to 271 – 277. The SNP's seats prediction is up to 39.5 – 42.5, Lib Dems down up slightly to 24 – 27 and UKIP static at 5 – 7.

Our fixed odds prices for the most seats are Conservatives at 2/5, Labour 15/8, UKIP 100/1 and Lib Dems 500/1.

In terms of overall majority, No Overall Majority is 2/9, Conservative Majority 4/1, Labour Majority 14/1, UKIP Majority 100/1 and Lib Dem Majority 500/1.


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