Sunday Football Tips: 3/1 shot coming your way

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. Check out Jamie's Saturday Football Tips below...

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: -1.29 pts

2024-25 season’s P and L: + 16.9

We came extremely close to a 4.38 winner last week. Como v Cremonese gave us a ‘both teams to score’ winner after it ended 1-1 and Sporting did their bit by beating Estoril. I would have expected that to have been more comfortable than just 1-0 but that’s missing the point: a bet either wins or it doesn’t.

Sadly, Mallorca and Alaves didn’t want to play ball with us, the match ending 1-0 when we needed two goals. There were six shots on target across both sides,  10 off target, and only one of them went in, so we can feel a bit hard done-by. But sometimes you’re going to get the run of the green, sometimes you’re not. On we go.

Udinese vs Cagliari – Back Over 1.5 Goals @ 4/9 

We kick things off with the shortest-priced of our selections and that’s that there are at least two goals in this match.

Udinese had a strong record for over 1.5 goals matches at home last season with 68% of them going that way. Proof that they’re involved in matches with plenty of goals is that their record was even higher for away matches last campaign: 79%. They have a perfect record (of over 1.5 goals games at home) so far this season, winning 3-0 and drawing 1-1, and it’s 4/5 in total for over 1.5 games so far.

Opponents Cagliari saw 74% of their away games last season have at least two goals in them. Add to that the stat that five of the last six between these two in north Italy have had at least two goals in that match and you can see why we’re relatively confident.

Lille vs PSG – Back both teams to score @ 4/6

PSG are big fans of an away BTTS match. Or at least you’d think so by looking at their stats from last season. In 82% of their matches outside Paris last campaign, both teams got on the scoresheet, proving the theory this is an ambitious, attacking side who is happy to concede a few, if it means scoring more than their opponents. Three of their four matches so far this season have seen both teams net, too.

Lille, at home, could be said to be kindred spirits of PSG away. They had a 76.5% strike rate for BTTS matches at home last season.

If you’re still not convinced, consider this: the last four fixtures in this match at Lille between these two sides finished: 1-3, 1-1, 1-7 and 1-5, so at the very least, history is on our side.

Porto vs Benfica – Back Draw or Benfica on the Double Chance market @ 8/11

Now, I’m a stickler for accuracy and eligibility, so I had to check the terms and conditions of this column to make sure it was all on board.

Am I allowed to preview a particular match - which I have away from this column at Betfred- and then include a selection from that same match in my 3-3-3 column? Yes, it seems I can.

The selection here is that Benfica don’t lose the match. It’s a theory backed up by the fact that Benfica have avoided defeat in three of their last five trips to Porto and the fact that Jose Mourinho has started life at Benfica decently after his appointment last month.

If ever you wanted a match tailor-made for Mourinho, then a return to the stadium hosted by the cub that made him famous all those years ago, is probably the nearest you’re going to get from that.

Sure, Porto are seven from seven this season, but they’ve played some of the weaker teams in the division of late and certainly haven’t been exposed to  a manager of Mourinho’s pedigree so far.  A draw is a very lively runner but a Benfica win certainly isn’t out of the equation either, so we’ll take Benfica on the double chance market here.

Jamie’s Fun Fact

Jose Mourinho loves winning a European trophy. He’s the only manager to have won all of the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League.

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