Weekend Football Accumulator Tips: Can the 3-3-3 Column win for third week in a Row?

The 3-3-3 column ended 2025 with a nice winner at 3.7/1 as a rare trip to the SPL assisted our weekend treble. We are back on more well-trodden shores this week with selections from Italy, France and Portugal.

Let's see if Jamie can continue to do this thing as we take a look at his Weekend Accumulator Football Tips with the latest instalment of his 3-3-3 column...

Last year, the 3-3-3 column returned a profit of 17 points, which means that if you'd backed every treble recommended over the course of the season for level £10 stakes, you'd be up by £170. That's one of the better returns you'll see in the tipping business and speaking of returns, Jamie Pacheco is returning again this year to do try to do it all over again, and maybe even improve on it.

Welcome to the 3-3-3 betting column. Why is it called that? Glad you asked. It's not a formation to play when you've had a man sent off but rather:

3 - The number of different selections making up the acca.

3 - The number of different (non-English) European Leagues the selections are taken from every week.

3 - The minimum odds (3/1) or 4.0 if you prefer, that the acca will come to it every week.

And it really is as simple as that. The selections can be from any betting markets, as long as they meet the criteria set out above. And to round things off, every week I'll leave you with a cool (or at least I think so) bit of trivia involving one of the teams featured in the acca. Simples...

2025-26 season Current P and L: +10.3 pts  

2024-25 season's P and L: + 16.9     

We went back-to-back last week, as per the title of last week's column, to take our profit for the season past the +10 mark, which is precisely where we want to be if we're to match, or even better, last year's effort of +16.9 points.  

We mostly have Genoa v Pisa to thank for producing a BTTS match at odds of 6/5, while we got the bookings we needed in Brest v Auxerre and though it was close in the end, just 1-0, Porto got the better of Santa Clara as we predicted. 

So plenty of points were won over the last couple of weeks, but as ever, our work is never done.   

• Roma v Sassuolo  
• Saturday, January 10, 17:00  
• Back Under 2.5 Goals @ 4/5  

It's time to revisit Roma, something readers of this column will know I did over Christmas. But in this case, I'm talking about the football club, not the city as a whole.  

Ironically, the last time we had selection in a Roma match, it went on to cost us a win for the column, but they've done us plenty of favours this season already, so that one time they let us down isn't enough to put us off.  

If you need your memory jogged, we had under 2.5 goals in their match against Juventus, but it ended 2-1.  

But that was one of just three away matches out of 10 (30%) where there have been 'overs' in their games, and the next two away stayed 'unders' too.  

Their record at home is even better for low-scoring clashes: just 22% of home games have had three or more goals.  

Opponents Sassuolo aren't quite as keen on games where goals are at a premium, but that's not to say they're the biggest of scorers either.  

55% away and 50% at home for 'overs is pretty much par for the course for Serie A, but then again, they don't play Roma every week. Or else their record for 'unders' may have been considerably better than it is.  

The fact that three of Sassuolo's last four matches stayed under 2.5 goals is a positive, as is the fact this match ended 1-0 Roma last season. Let's put our faith in Roma once more, that they can keep things tight.  

• Valencia v Elche 
• Saturday, January 10, 20:00 
• Back Both Teams to Score @ 5/6  

If Roma aren't fans of matches with goals in them, the same can't be said of Elche, who are currently in a surprisingly good ninth position in La Liga, and have a penchant for BTTS matches away from home. Or at least the stats suggest they do.  

They're 75% for BTTS matches away, while having a 50% strike rate at home, and saw all of their first four away games of the season having goals at both ends.  

Valencia have exactly the same 55.6% strike rate both home and away for BTTS matches, so it shows they're a side with a slight tendency for them as well. That includes the last two, 1-1 back-to-back draws against Sevilla and Mallorca.  

So decent stats to suggest that 1-1 or 2-1 to either side could well be on the cards. The last two between these two ended 2-2 and 2-1, so there's some history to suggest we might get those goals at both ends on those grounds, too.  

• Rio Ave v Benfica   
• Sunday, January 11, 20:30 
• Back Over 1.5 Goals @ 2/9 

As readers of this column will know, having two relatively big-priced selections (5/6 or greater) as your first two picks means that if they come good, we really should be on course to win, because the third one can be at a much shorter price. 

And that's the case here with over 1.5 goals available at 2/9, which gets the treble up to 4.01, so just within the minimum limits of the acca's odds, but doing enough.  

Hopefully this one shouldn't be a problem.  

Benfica are 75% for over 1.5 matches away and 89% at home, and that includes all of their last four away having two or more goals: ending 0-3, 1-2, 0-4, and 2-2, all of which won quite comfortably in the end.   

Given that Rio Ave are 88% at home and 89% away for games with two or more goals in them, and I'd be pretty disappointed if this is the one that lets us down.  

Jamie's Fun Fact  

Benfica's Vangelis Pavlidis, something of a cult figure in this column, is enjoying a pretty good run of form. Though he only scored in one of six matches he played between late September and early November, he's made up for it since with seven goals in his last four matches, courtesy of hat-tricks against Moreirense and Estoril (last week), to go with the winning goal at Famalicao a couple of weeks ago.

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Jamie Pacheco predominantly covers Cricket and European Football for us at Betfred Insights. You can check out his Football Betting Tips, along with those from the rest of the team, at our Football hub page...