Saturday Football Tips: 3/1 Cross-European Treble for our 3-3-3 Column

The 3-3-3 column sees our European Weekend Accumulator tipster take a trip through Spain, Italy and France this week as he looks to built on his current Profit/Loss stats for the 25/26 season.

Let's see if Jamie can do this thing as we take a look at his Saturday Football Tips...

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: +7.97 pts

2024-25 season’s P and L: + 16.9

So where were we before the international break? Of yeah, we were winning again, the second time in three weeks, to show a current profit of 7.97pts after 3-3-3 came in at odds of 4.88.

We’ve had plenty of wins since the column began at the start of last season, but in a way, this was the most satisfying of all.

Because all bets were won with plenty to spare? No, the complete opposite: because they all won with nothing to spare.

I won’t bore you with all the details other than to say the first part of the bet won as a result of Sporting Lisbon beating Santa Clara deep into injury time, from a corner, that was never a corner to begin with. But then again, they don’t pay out when you’re one corner or card away from a big 4/1 winner, do they? No. So, we’ll take the stroke of luck and hope there’s plenty more of it.

Deportivo Alaves vs Celta Vigo – Back both teams to score @ 10/11

As loyal readers of this column will know, one of my strategies when going in search of glory/fame/profits is to open up with an almost even money shot as my (chronologically) first bet of the weekend.

If it loses, then we don’t need to worry about the others. But if it wins, we’re almost halfway there to the whole thing winning. That’s because picking a selection very close to being an evens shot gives plenty of flexibility as regards the other two bets. Be ambitious and try to win with another even-money(ish) shot for a big payout, or play it a bit safer and go with two shorter-priced selections that still allow me to get it to at least 3/1.

But back to the selection. Alaves have a 83.3% strike rate for BTTS matches this season at home and welcome a side with an 100% record for goals at both ends this season when away. Yes, you read that right: 100%. 5 out of 5. Proof that Celta’s record is no fluke is that they’re 85.7% for BTTS at home, too. And they were 73.7% for it away from home last season, as well.

Three of the last four between the two ended with BTTS, so it’s not a hard call to make, especially at the price.

Napoli vs Atalanta – Back Under 2.5 Goals @ 8/11

But if that match looks a good one to expect goals in, then the same (statistically, at least) can’t be said of Napoli v Atalanta. Atalanta used to be one of the big entertainers of European football but all that’s changed since Gasperini left at the end of last season.

Just 33.3% of their home matches and an even lower 20% of away matches this season have gone ‘overs’, whereas the goals have also dried up in Napoli’s matches: ok, 60% at home… but just 33% away.

But what really makes me keen on the bet is Napoli’s run of four straight ‘unders’ matches, suggesting, of course, that they’re struggling to score: it certainly hasn’t helped that Romelu Lukaku hasn’t played for them all season due to injury.

So, Antonio Conte is often playing for 1-0 or even -0-0 as a result of that. Let’s hope another of those happens on Saturday night.

PSG vs Le Havre Back PSG to win and over 1.5 goals @ 2/7

And now to the short-price selection we can go with as a result of the first ‘big’ prices.

I’d be lying if I said that Dembele and co have been in great form, they haven’t, with back-to-back defeats to Lyon and Bayern Munich in their last two matches, proof of that.

But those are two very strong sides and quite frankly, Le Havre aren’t. Two of PSG’s last two home matches against Le Havre have resulted in a home win with over 1.5 goals, and though PSG had to recover from being 3-0 down at home two years ago, PSG fought back to make it 3-3 and could even have won the game in injury time.

It's been a strange season for Luis Enrique’s men, not quite keeping up to the standards of last year when they won the Champions League, but this really should be quite straightforward: a win with at least two goals in the same.

Jamie’s Fun Fact

Former Atalanta manager Gian Piero Gasperini played 468 games as a midfielder in Italian football in the 80s and early 90s, but it wasn't for his goals that they had him in the side. He scored just one across his whole senior career.

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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...