Sherrock makes history, Villa beat Scouse kids

Aston Villa wallop a bunch of kids and Fallon Sherrock makes history – it’s the Daily Spread Betting Roundup! But how much could you have won?

Youngest ever Reds line-up flop at Villa – Aston Villa v Liverpool
By deciding they’d rather win the Club World Cup, Liverpool basically gave Aston Villa a bye into the semi-finals. Not to take anything away from the hosts’ thumping 5-0 win, but they were facing the youngest starting line-up the Reds have ever fielded – an average of just 19.48 years per player.

It didn’t take too long for Villa to get in front, Conor Hourihane converting a free-kick in the 14th minute. Sell a 1st Match Goal spread of 25-28 and you get 11 times your initial bet.

Mere minutes later Morgan Boyes deflected Ahmed Elmohamady’s cross into his own net, while a brace just before the break from Jonathan Kodjia – who has barely featured in the league – left Villa at 4-0 heading into half-time. It also meant the 30-year old Frenchman saw a SMM make-up of 127 against a high opening spread of 58-68 – buy at that price and you’d be left with 59 times your original stake.

Lambs for the slaughter, the game could have turned into a bloodbath. Instead Villa took the foot off the gas, their 5th goal not coming until injury time, courtesy of disappointing summer signing Wesley. Back a Last Match Goal spread of 71-74, then, and you would’ve nabbed 16 times your opening wager.

The hosts were expected to win with ease. The size of the victory was perhaps a tad surprising, if just because of their problems in the league. Nevertheless, buying a one-sided Aston Villa/Liverpool Goal Supremacy spread of 2-2.2 would have still netted you 2.8 times your initial stake.

First woman to win at PDC World Championship – Ted Evetts v Falleon Sherrock
Only the 5th women to ever appear at the competition, 25-year old Fallon Sherrock made history at Ally Pally on Tuesday as she became the first women ever to win at the PDC World Championship.

She wasn’t given much of a chance to begin with, starting at a binary to win spread of just 3.8-9.1, falling to 0.9-7.7 as she went 2-1 down to Ted Evetts. Buy at that latter price before her comeback and, as she won 3-2, you would have bagged 92.3 times your opening bet.

Her victory also meant selling an Evetts/Sherrock 10-3 Supremacy spread – where the winner receives 10 points plus an additional 3 for each set won by – of 14-17 left savvy punters with 27 times their initial stake.