Weekend Football Accumulator Tips: European Treble goes for back-to-back Winners

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: +6.65 pts  

2024-25 season's P and L: + 16.9     

We finished the year in style with the column winning at 3.7/1 last time out to take our profit at the halfway mark of the season to +6.65 which is pretty good. Still a long way to go to get to the almost 17 points profit last year but we're certainly going to try.  

Last week, we needed three goals in the Celtic match and got six as Celtic won 4-2, and we needed Sporting Lisbon to score in both halves, and they did, getting one in the first half and three in the second.  

So it was all down to Inter Milan to beat Atalanta as the biggest priced of our three selections at evens, and they did, courtesy of a 65th minute winner in a game where they were much the better side.  

So a great result to end 2025 in the best possible way but as ever, we still want to build on that.  

• Genoa v Pisa  
• Saturday 3rd January 14:00  
• Back Both Teams to Score @ 6/5  

By the end of this match, we're either going to be in an excellent position to win again, or it's going to be 'all over Red Rover' at the first time of asking. 

I suppose you could say that's true for any selection but this one's a bit different because it's an odds-against shot. So on the one hand, fraught with danger, on the other it means our other two selections can be at much shorter prices (and still meet the minimum 3/1 odds), so have a good chance of winning.     

But back to this one. It's based on Pisa's somewhat freakish record when it comes to BTTS matches. They're useless at scoring at home, doing so just once all season(!). Given they won that game 1-0, and it's 0/9 for them for BTTS at home.    

But bizarrely, they have little or no trouble scoring away. They've done so in six of their eight away days. And in four of their last five, they actually scored two: they're 6/8 for BTTS on the road.   

Opponents Genoa are as strange as they are. All 8 of their away matches went BTTS, so the show right there they have plenty of potential for BTTS matches themselves. At home their stats are poor for goals at both ends with just three from nine, but those three came in their last four matches.  

Some may see this as a cagey match between two relegation-threatened teams where neither wants to lose but that could also mean an opportunity for both to get a vital three points against a relegation rival. If there's an early goal, the other side will have no choice but to go for it.  

So plenty of angles to suggest BTTS has potential here at a big price.  

• Brest v Auxerre      
• Sunday 4th January 16:15 
• Back Over 37.5 Bookings points @ 8/15  

I must admit I don't watch Auxerre play week in and week out, but stats don't lie, as they say, and when it comes to their disciplinary record, those stats paint a pretty damning picture.  

Ready? Last time out at home against Lille they had two red cards and a further three yellows, on two occasions at home they had a red and three yellows and in eight out of nine at home, their players saw at least two yellows in the game.  They've had five players sent off at home this season and one away.  

At home, 88% of their matches have gone over 37.5 bookings points, and it's 57% away from home that have had at least four yellow cards brandished.   

Brest matches don't seem to have quite as much indiscipline in them but it's still exactly 50% both home and away for matches that went over 37.5 points. 

• Santa Clara v Porto    
• Sunday January 4th 18:00 
• Back Porto to win @ 4/9  

Porto have had an excellent season so far, currently top of the table with a 10-point lead over Benfica and a 5-point lead over Sporting Lisbon.  

They've won 15 of their 16 matches so far in the league this season, so it's no surprise their manager, Francesco Farioli, is being considered for the vacant Chelsea position, though it may seem a bit soon for him to depart already, given he only arrived in the summer.  

Santa Clara are doing ok, 14th out of 18, but not that well. They've lost seven of 15 so far and against weaker teams than Porto.  

Porto have won in six of their last seven visits here to the Azores, so let's hope it's business as usual on Sunday night.  

The price on Porto is 4/9 so our acca comes to a slightly bigger price than usual, at 3.87/1.

Jamie's Fun Fact  

It's not hard to see where Porto have excelled this season. Across 16 league matches, they've conceded just four goals. When you consider they've scored 35, you can see why they're in the position that they're in.   

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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...