22.05.14 Thursday Morning

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Football

The Champions League final will be a first-ever derby between two teams from the same city when Real and Atletico go head-to-head in Lisbon on Saturday night.

La Liga winners Atletico have the advantage in league clashes between the two sides this season with a 1-0 win and 2-2 draw while Real beat their rivals 2-0 and 3-0 in the Copa Del Rey. Our traders are siding with Real who are 5/6 for the win, with the draw 12/5 and Atletico 10/3. To lift the trophy, including extra time and penalties, Real are 40/85 with Atletico 7/4.

There’s also the small matter of the final Premier League place up for grabs on Saturday afternoon. It’s a tough one to call, but tur spread betting Supremacy price is Derby/QPR 0.1 – 0.3.

With news that Luis Suarez could be out of the World Cup, England’s odds have shortened from 28/1 to 25/1 to lift the trophy, from 12/1 to 10/1 to reach the final and from 12/5 to 21/10 to win Group D

Our World Cup spread betting tournament specials include selections such as Total Goals, Yellow Cards, Red Cards, Corners, Total Goal Minutes, Headed Goals, Headed Goal Minutes, 90 Min Penalties Scored, Shootout Penalties Scored, Time of Fastest Goal and Time of Fastest Red Card.  

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

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Horse Racing

The flat season is in full flow after the 1,000 and 2,000 Guineas earlier this month and ahead of the Oaks and Derby next month.

So what better time to view our free Timeform Classic Update e-guide which profiles the Top Flat Horses and previews this weekend’s Temple Stakes, Irish 2,000 Guineas, Tattersalls Gold Cup and Irish 1,000 Guineas. Read your free Top Flat Horses Racing e-guide here!

Looking at the Temple Stakes at 3.50pm on Saturday from Haydock, our Antepost prices have four horses leading the betting in Hot Streak at 5/2, Sole Power 10/3, Pearl Secret 4/1 and Kingsgate Native at 6/1

Don’t forget that in addition to our each-way and accumulators, you can now place forecast and tricast fixed odds bets on horse racing with Spreadex. Click the following link to find out more on forecast and tricast betting.

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

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Cricket

Our new Cricket In-Play Match Centre has been designed to enhance your live cricket fixed odds and spread betting experience with Spreadex.

As well as showing a ball-by-ball update on the action and providing a Scorecard displaying, wickets, number of 4s, 6s and wides, the Match Centre also shows live graphs of each teams’ run rate, Worm (which plots the total runs as they are accumulated across overs) and Manhattan (which shows the runs per over across the innings in a bar chart).

See the Match Centre in action for yourself in today’s England v Sri Lanka first ODI where our traders can’t split the sides with both nations 10/11 for the win.

We’re also continuing our coverage of the Indian Premier League and Natwest T20 Blast. For each game we’ll have a range of Player Performance markets (a spread based on points awarded to players on the following basis; 1 point per run, 10 per catch, 20 per wicket and 25 per stumping) and spread betting specials (Total Sixes, Total Fours, Total Wides, 50 Ups, Multi-Wides, Multi-Sixes, Multi-Fours etc.) available before the start of the game.

During the matches themselves we’ll be in-play with a host of fixed odds, spread betting and binary markets to play on. Today’s (Thursday’s) IPL clashes feature Kolkata v Bangalore and Chennai v Hyderabad.

Our long term fixed odds prices for 2015 Cricket World Cup winner have Australia as 10/3 favourites, South Africa 9/2, India 5/1, Sri Lanka 13/2, Pakistan and New Zealand 8/1 and England 9/1.

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

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Rugby 

On Saturday RC Toulon face Saracens in the final of the Heineken Cup at the Millennium Stadium.

Toulon are 8/11 for the win with Sarecens 5/4. The draw is 16/1. Our spread betting Points Supremacy market has Toulon/Saracens 1 - 4.

We also have live and non-live betting on a host of RaboDirect Pro12, French Top 14 and Super Rugby clahses.

Our rugby league coverage features live and non-live betting on all the clashes in the Super League and NRL.  

See all our latest rugby spread betting and rugby fixed odds betting prices here.

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Tennis 

The French Open gets underway on Sunday and as far as the outright betting goes we have Rafael Nadal as 5/4 favourite, Novak Djokovic 6/4, Stan Warwinka 8/1, David Ferrer 14/1, Roger Federer 18/1, Kei Nishikori 25/1, Andy Murray 25/1 and Tomas Berdych 50/1.

In the women's side of the draw Serena Williams is the 5/4 favourite followed by Maria Sharapova at 9/2, Na Li at 6/1, Simona Halep 10/1, Ana Ivanovic 14/1 and Agnieszka Radwanska 25/1.

Today’s action comes from the WTA Strasbourg, WTA Nurnberg, ATP Dusseldorf and ATP Nice where France’s Giles Simon takes on Carlos Berlocq later and is 19/20 to book a place in the semi-final.

See all our latest tennis spread betting and tennis fixed odds betting prices here. 

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Golf 

It's a busy weekend of golf betting with our fixed odds and spread betting prices taking in action from four different tournaments.

On the PGA tour it's the Crown Plaza Invitational from the Colonial Country Club Course in Fort Worth, Texas while on the European Tour it's the BMW Championship in Wentworth, England.

We're also betting on the Senior PGA Championship and the Airbus LPGA Classic.

If that's not enough for you, we also have long term fixed odds prices available for the US Open, Open Championship, USPGA Championship and the Ryder Cup.

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

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Darts

After 15 weeks on the road, the Premier League Darts reaches its conclusion tonight at the O2.

Reigning Champion Michael van Gerwen finished top of the regular season table takes on Gary Anderson. The Dutchman is 3/10 to progress with Anderson at 12/5. In the other semi-final Raymond van Barneveld is 9/4 to go through with Phil Taylor at 1/3.

See all our latest darts spread betting and darts fixed odds betting prices here. 

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Motor Racing

The sixth Grand Prix of the season takes place this weekend with the drivers heading to Monaco.

Lewis Hamilton will be hoping to continue his good form which has so far seen him deliver four consecutive triumphs to top the drivers' standings ahead of Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg.

Our traders have Hamilton 5/6 to make it five wins in a row and team-mate Nico Rosberg 7/4. After that Sebastian Vetteland Daniel Ricciardo are 10/1.

Our Live Index, which is updated in-play during the race, offers 25 points to the winner, 10 points to the second placed driver and five to the third placed driver. Hamilton is 14 – 15.5, Rosberg 11.5 – 13, Vettel 3.25-4.75  and Alonso 2 – 3.5.

See all our latest motor racing spread betting and motor racing fixed odds betting prices here. 

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Boxing

The countdown continues for Froch v Groves 2 at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, May 31st with both fighters having their say in the media in the build up to the big night.

Our traders have Froch the 4/6 favourite, Groves a 13/10 shot and the draw 25/1. Fight Minutes are priced at 25.5 – 27.5 meaning our traders think the fight will again finish at around the end of the ninth round or beginning of the tenth.  

See all our latest boxing spread betting and boxing fixed odds betting prices here. 

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American Sports

We're now offering player goal minutes on in-play games in the National Hockey League throughout the play-offs.

For both the NHL and NBA we'll have live betting on televised matches, non-live coverage on the other games plus some series spread betting specials on the play-off clashes.

We'll also have coverage from the ongoing MLB season with live betting on Texas at Detroit today at 18.08 and Toronto at Boston at 21.05.

See all our latest american sports spread betting and american sports fixed odds betting prices here. 

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Politics

The Scottish Independence Referendum takes place on September 18th and our traders reckon it's going to end as a 'No' vote.

That's 2/7 to be the outcome while a 'Yes' vote is 5/2.

We also have prices on the next General Election. For Most Seats we have Labour 8/11, Conservatives, 11/10, UKIP 100/1 and Liberal Democrats 150/1.

For Overall Majority we have Labour 6/4, Conservatives 11/4, UKIP 100/1, Liberal Democrats 200/1 and No Overall Majority 11/8.

We also have markets live for who will be the next Prime Minister after David Cameron.

Ed Milliband is 8/11 favourite followed by Boris Johnson at 12/1, Theresa May at 14/1, Yvette Cooper 14/1, Phillip Hammond 20/1 and George Osborne, Michael Gove and William Hague all 25/1.

See all our latest politics fixed odds prices.

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*Prices subject to change.