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The World Cup has reached the quarter-finals stage with more mouth-watering matches lying in store. France face Germany and Brazil take on Colombia tomorrow (Friday) while Argentina play Belgium and Holland face Costa Rica on Saturday.

At Spreadex we are industry standout price 17/2 for Brazil to win in extra time against Colombia and industry standout Brazil 4/9 to qualify by any means.

Six of the eight ‘Round of 16’ matches saw 120 minutes played, so our blogger has been looking at how to bet on football matches going into extra time.

For all the matches we’ll have our usual range of in-play fixed odds and spread betting markets available plus a whole host of extras such as extra time markets, penalty markets and specials including offsides and goals cubed.

Our Premier League long-term prices are now live. We’ve got Man City 15/8 favourites to retain their title, Chelsea 2/1 and Man United ahead of Liverpool in the betting with each at 11/2 and 13/2 respectively and Arsenal a distant 10/1. In the Championship we have Fulham and Cardiff the 7/1 with favourites with Derby, Norwich and Wigan all 10/1.

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It’s been a week of shocks at Wimbledon with Andy Murray knocked out by ‘Baby Fed’ Grigor Dimitrov, Rafael Nadal sent packing by 19-year-old Aussie Nick Kyrgios and Maria Sharapova despatched by Angelique Kerber.

After the women's semi-finals today, tomorrow the men take to the court with Novak Djokovic playing Dimitrov and Roger Federer facing Milos Raonic.

Djokovic remains outright favourite at 4/5, Federer is 12/5, Dimitrov 13/2 and Raonic 7/1. In the women’s outright betting, Kvitova is 13/8 favourite, Halep 2/1, Bouchard 11/4 and Safarova 7/1.

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Lewis Hamilton currently lies 29 points behind Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg in the championship standings so can he close the gap on home soil in the British Grand Prix on Sunday?

Hamilton is 4/6 favourite with Rosberg 7/4. Don’t forget that with our spread betting Race Index each diver has a spreads based on where they finish in the top 10 places, giving you an interest past just the podium finish.

Hamilton’s Race Index spread is 56 - 60 and Rosberg’s is 52 - 55. Points are awarded as follows; 80 for first, 60 for second, 50 for third, 40 for fourth, 30 for fifth, 25 for sixth, 20 for seventh, 15 for eighth, 10 for ninth and 5 for tenth.

We also have a 25-10-5 Live Index, updated during the race, paying out on the final top three. Hamilton’s Live Index quote is 16 - 17.5 and Rosberg’s is 12.5 - 14.

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After falling to a Test series defeat to Sri Lanka, England need a dramatic improvement in the five-Test series against India, which begins at Lord’s on Wednesday next week.
 

Ben Stokes is back in the fold after injury so can his inclusion lift the side and improve the fortunes of embattled captain Alastair Cook? England are even money to win the series, while India are 13/8 and the draw 17/4.

Despite his troubles, Cook is 11/4 second favourite to be Leading England Series Batsman while Ian Bell is the 5/2 favourite. We’ll have our full range of spread betting series prices out very soon.

Elsewhere we’ll also be covering all the latest action in the Natwest T20 Blast and Caribbean T20 Cup while 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.

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Our fixed odds and spread betting golf coverage this week covers the Greenbrier Classic from West Virginia on the PGA Tour and the Open de France from Paris on the European Tour.

We’ll have our usual range of in-play markets including End of Round 1 Leaderboard and 10-3 Match Bets plus our fixed odds outrights updated each day.

With final qualifying now all done and dusted for the Open Championships at Royal Liverpool the week after next, don’t forget that our Open outrights are all live. Rory McIlroy is the 10/1 favourite while Tiger Woods, despite being out of action for months after back surgery, is the 12/1 second favourite with Adam Scott.

We also have USPGA Championship and Ryder Cup long-term prices out.

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Widnes v Castleford in the Super League tonight kicks off our in-play rugby league betting coverage this weekend. We have Widnes 6/4 for the win, Castleford 4/7 and the draw 16/1. Our spread betting Points Supremacy is Castleford/Widnes (h) 4 - 7.

Tomorrow we’re live on Wakefield v Leeds and will also be covering a selection of other Super League and NRL games in-play over the coming days.

Our rugby union betting takes in a whole host of Super Rugby games tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday.

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The players are in Bendigo, Victoria for the Australian Goldfields Open with Neil Robertson hoping to break his drought in his home country after victory at the Wuxi Classic in China.

Robertson was today facing Jamie Jones in his opening match. Robertson was 1/9 for the win with Jones 5/1. In our 10-3 Supremacy spread betting market (10 points to the winner plus three points per frame won by) was Robertson/Jones 14 - 17.

We will have our usual range of in-play fixed odds and spread betting markets on a selection of games throughout the tournament.

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The Tour de France gets underway in Leeds on Saturday as the riders make their way through Yorkshire before ending Stage 3 in London on Monday and then moving on to France.

Last year’s winner Chris Froome is the 10/11 favourite to retain his title but Alberto Contador, the man Froome has identified as his main contender, is 15/8.

Dereck Chisora and Tyson Fury go head to head in Manchester in a heavyweight rematch and world title eliminator on Saturday, July 26th.

We have Fury as the 1/2 favourite, Chisora 13/8 and the draw 22/1. Our spread betting Fight Minutes quote is 25.25 - 26.75.

 

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

That’s shortened to 1/7 to be the outcome while a ‘Yes’ vote has lengthened to 9/2.

We also have prices on the next General Election. For Most Seats we have Labour 4/5, Conservatives even money, UKIP 66/1 and Liberal Democrats 150/1.

For Overall Majority we have Labour 15/8, Conservatives 5/2, UKIP 80/1, Liberal Democrats 200/1 and No Overall Majority 11/10.

We also have markets live for who will be the next Prime Minister after David Cameron.
Ed Miliband is 4/5 favourite followed by Boris Johnson at 10/1, Theresa May at 14/1, Yvette Cooper 14/1 and Phillip Hammond 25/1, George Osborne, Michael Gove, William Hague and Chuka Umunna all 25/1.



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*Prices subject to change.