May 2026 Performance Review: +263 Points

A 263-point month to close the season, and a streak that reached 27.

263 points across all services in May, with the run of consecutive profitable months now at 27. Two member wins led the month, both from a five-pound stake, as Ugz turned his fiver into £335 on a 66/1 read in Glasgow and Gibbs took £60 out of the Clásico. It was the month the season ran out of road, with Arsenal ending a 22-year wait for the title before losing the Champions League final in Budapest, and both La Liga and the Scottish title settled in fixtures that sat on our slips. Through all of it the approach stayed the same: read the matchup, read the game state, read the player profile, then trust the price.

Leeds United

3–1

Burnley

Premier League

The month opened at Elland Road on the 1st of May, in a fixture where the gap between the sides was the whole story. Leeds sat comfortably in mid-table and clear of trouble, while Burnley arrived second from bottom with the division's leakiest defence and an away record to match, and the boosted build-a-bet at 2/1 layered three connected legs onto that imbalance: Leeds to win, to register the most shots on target, and to take the most corners. Won @ 2/1 None of the three depended on the others, all of them riding the same expectation that Leeds would spend the night camped in Burnley's half.

Anton Stach settled it early with a long-range strike, Noah Okafor and Dominic Calvert-Lewin added two more inside five second-half minutes, and a Loum Tchaouna goal was all Burnley had to show for the night. The numbers underneath made the rest of the builder a formality, with Leeds piling up eight shots on target and leading the corner count by five. The same one-sided pattern carried the single on Josh Laurent to be booked at 7/1, Won @ 7/1 a midfielder left chasing a game his side never let him near.

Arsenal

3–0

Fulham

Premier League

A day later Arsenal kept the title charge moving at the Emirates, where the angle was less about the result than about the middle of the pitch. Arsenal would dominate the ball and Fulham would spend long spells chasing it, and a midfield asked to defend that much territory commits fouls while the side on top draws them, so the 13/5 builder paired Declan Rice to commit a foul with Emile Smith Rowe to win one against his former club, Won @ 13/5 two sides of the same game state.

Both landed early, with Gyökeres turning in a low Saka cross inside ten minutes, Saka doubling the lead before the break, and Gyökeres heading a third in first-half stoppage time. Arsenal fired off fourteen first-half shots and had the game won by the interval, the builder cashed long before any of it mattered.

Liverpool

1–1

Chelsea

Premier League

Anfield on the 9th of May produced one of the quietest attacking afternoons of the season, and the value lived inside that rather than against it. Ryan Gravenberch struck early and Enzo Fernández replied with a low free-kick, but the game never opened up, finishing with just fourteen shots in total and Liverpool managing only 0.51 expected goals, their lowest in a home league game in over four years. With clear chances that scarce, the edges came from the players certain to be involved whatever the scoreboard did.

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Virgil van Dijk over 1.5 shots at 5/1 Won @ 5/1 sat on exactly that. A centre-half who attacks every Liverpool set piece was always likely to get efforts away, and he did, a volley dragged over from close range and a header off the crossbar. The foul builder worked the same game from the other end: in a scrappy, territorial match, the 7/2 on Federico Chiesa and Dominik Szoboszlai each to commit two or more fouls Won @ 7/2 read two players whose off-ball work spikes in exactly this kind of fixture. Both got there.

Barcelona

2–0

Real Madrid

La Liga

Barcelona clinched the title against Real Madrid on the 10th of May, the first time they have sealed La Liga against their oldest rivals. Rashford curled in a free-kick inside ten minutes and Ferran Torres made it two. The result was settled early; the Clásico was not, and the value lived in how the afternoon turned once the league was gone.

When a title slips away in a derby this size the temperature rises, and the Counta in-play call flagged the card market as the game tipped over. Olmo and Asencio were booked together in a scuffle after half-time, Alexander-Arnold followed for a foul on Fermín López, and Bellingham was carded too after his goal was chalked off for offside. Member Gibbs took the single on Alexander-Arnold at 11/1, his £5 back as £60. Won @ 11/1 The four-fold on all four to be carded went unbacked but landed at 300/1.

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The pre-match angle was structural, not disciplinary. Real Madrid would chase the game and force play wide, Alexander-Arnold whipping deliveries in from the right, and the 8/5 builder on their corner count plus over ten in the match Won @ 8/5 landed as the visitors piled forward late. The count climbed past ten, most of them in the closing stages.

West Ham

0–1

Arsenal

Premier League

The same Sunday took Arsenal across London to the London Stadium, where the read was about who carried the threat rather than about a comfortable scoreline that never arrived. West Ham sat deep and made Arsenal work for it, and the breakthrough did not come until Martin Ødegaard slipped into the area and cut the ball back for Leandro Trossard to finish with seven minutes left. The single goal settled the under-five-goals leg of the builder, but Trossard had been the most dangerous player on the pitch long before he found it.

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The 5/1 on Trossard for two or more shots on target paired with that goal cap Won @ 5/1 read a forward operating in the half-spaces against a back line giving him room to shoot, and in the first half alone he had a header clawed off the line by Mads Hermansen and the rebound rattle the post. The 6/1 on Bowen for two or more shots from outside the box Won @ 6/1 came from the other side of the same game, a West Ham side reduced to shooting from distance against an organised Arsenal block, and their most willing long-range shooter duly obliged.

Celtic

3–1

Hearts

Scottish Premiership

The biggest member win of the month came from the wildest finish. Hearts went to Celtic Park on the 16th of May a single point clear, needing only to avoid defeat to be crowned after leading the league for the best part of the season, and Lawrence Shankland's header late in the first half had them ahead. Then it came apart, as Arne Engels levelled from the penalty spot in first-half stoppage time to make it 1-1 at the break, and the game flipped from there.

The selection was Daizen Maeda to score the third goal of the match and to be booked, a 66/1 build-a-bet that asked for a specific player at a specific point in a frantic, end-to-end title decider. Maeda turned in Callum Osmand's cross late on for the goal that won Celtic the championship, the third strike of the afternoon, and was booked in the closing stages with the game still raw. Won @ 66/1 Group member Ugz's £5 returned £335, and though Osmand added a fourth in stoppage time, the selection had already cashed the moment Maeda turned it in.

Away from football, the racing came good across the Atlantic, with Sassy Princess taking Race 2 at Churchill Downs on the 21st of May at 7/4, Won @ 7/4 a five-year-old mare arriving on the back of two straight wins with a top jockey aboard and a barn in form. The angle was the simple one that holds up at any track on any surface, a horse going the right way, in the right conditions, against a field she had the measure of, and she made it three in a row, holding on by a length.

The 24th of May brought a Série B result from Brazil where the angle was a player's role rather than the scoreline. Criciúma went ahead through Marcelo Hermes and were pegged back by a late Matheus Trindade equaliser against his former club, a 1-1 that did neither side many favours, and the selection sat underneath the result.

Marcinho, Criciúma's attacking right-back, was the natural outlet for volume from the right in a game his side spent on the front foot, and the 3/1 on over 1.5 shots landed Won @ 3/1 as he fired efforts from inside and outside the box across the ninety minutes, an angle on the player's brief rather than the team's result, the kind that does not care whether the game finishes level.

PSG

1–1

Arsenal

Champions League Final · PSG won 4-3 on penalties

The season ended in Budapest on the 30th of May with the cruellest possible night for the new Premier League champions. Arsenal led after six minutes through Kai Havertz and held it deep into the second half, but PSG dominated possession throughout and eventually found their way back, the equaliser arriving from twelve yards.

That penalty was the call paying out, as Khvicha Kvaratskhelia was hauled down in the box and Ousmane Dembélé stepped up to score it, settling the Counta in-play pick on Dembélé at 7/4. Won @ 7/4 The pre-match foul matchups sat on the duel everyone could see coming, Nuno Mendes against Bukayo Saka down the left, and both the 2+ fouls market and the reciprocal market landed at 7/2. Won @ 7/2 Level at 1-1, the final went to penalties, and PSG won the shootout 4-3 as Eberechi Eze and Gabriel both missed, leaving a side that had waited 22 years for the league to walk off without the European Cup its season had been built towards.

The domestic and European seasons are done, and the calendar now turns to the summer, with the World Cup arriving in June across North America as the first 48-team edition and the transfer window opening alongside it. The analysis does not stop for the off-season, and international football brings its own matchups, its own game states, and its own prices left on the table.

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