Weekend's Big Winning Bets 23.02.26

With another big sporting weekend in the books, we review the online betting action from the last three days, with three big winning spread bets

SHEFFIELD UNITED v SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY – CROSS-BOOKINGS (SETTLED AT 2975)

A Steel City derby always has a lot riding on it, but yesterday’s affair had more than most as a home win for Sheffield United condemned their cross city rivals to relegation.

In an ill-tempered affair, both sides had a man sent off after Kalvin Phillips saw red in the first half for a follow through on Svante Ingelsson with Gabriel Otegbayo sent off for Wednesday late on.

Bookings-related spreads were fairly high anyway given the nature of the fixture, but buyers on those spreads would have been pleased with their day. Before kick-off in South Yorkshire, the Cross-Bookings spread was available to trade at 415-495, but with the Blades earning 35 booking points and Wednesday awarded 85, the spread settled at 2975.

That left buyers with a big winning bet of 2480x their stake.

ENGLAND v IRELAND – IRELAND TRIES x PENS x CONVERSIONS (SETTLED AT 60)

England’s opening weekend win over Wales had the press gushing and Steve Borthwick’s side looked well placed to get their hands on the Six Nations again. A few weeks later however, and those dreams have been well and truly torched.

Scotland – beaten by Italy in their first match – rolled England over in Edinburgh, before Ireland descended on Twickenham on Saturday and trounced the hosts 42-21. It was a record win for the Irish in England and it certainly helped ease the pressure on head coach Andy Farrell.

Before kick-off, the English had been expected to win fairly handily, with the spread on Ireland’s Tries x Pens x Conversions available to trade at 4.6-5.6 ahead of kick off. However, five tries, four of which were converted, and three penalties kicked left the spread to settle at 60 as buyers claimed a win of 54.4x their stake.

INDIA v SOUTH AFRICA– IND/SA SUPREMACY (SETTLED AT -76)

Having executed a perfect T20 World Cup group stage, the expectation in Ahmedabad on Saturday was that India would be able to sweep aside South Africa, but the Proteas had other ideas.

Setting their hosts a target of 188 left India as 38-44 favourites on our cricket Supremacy market. However, India fell to 51-5 before the tenth over and came up way short in a surprisingly lacklustre run chase.

They eventually finished on 111 all out after Aiden Markram dismissed Jasprit Bumrah in the penultimate over. South Africa’s victory gave spread sellers a big winning bet, as the 76 run winning margin meant the spread settled at -76. Those who had sold on the Supremacy between the innings won 114x their stake.