SportingIndex offers a 'Team Performance' market for both teams for most live televised matches where the teams are awarded points based upon particular criteria.
A team scores points as follows: Win = 25 points, draw = 10, goal scored = 15, clean sheet = 10, hit woodwork =10 (note must rebound into play), corner = 3, yellow card = -5 and red card = -15.
As an example for a match between Aston Villa and Arsenal, SportingIndex may price Arsenal's performance at 44-48 points. If you fancied Arsenal to underperform against a solid Villa defence you would bet low on their performance at 44.
If a boring 0-0 draw followed, in which Arsenal managed only two corners and collected two yellow cards, Arsenal's Team Performance would have made up at just 16 points (10 for the draw, 10 for the clean sheet, 6 for 2 corners but minus 10 for 2 yellow cards).
So, had you gone low on Arsenal's performance at 44 you would have won 28 times your stake, in this case £5: (44 - 16) x your stake = 28 x £5 = £140. But if Arsenal's performance had resulted in 62 points, the same spread bet would have lost you 18 times your stake: (44 - 62) x your stake = -18 x £5 = -£90.