Football Betting Tips: Jamie’s Friday World Cup Treble

Our 3-3-3 columnist Jamie Pacheco is heating up just like the UK weather as he had another treble winner on Wednesday, meaning he's now had five winners - all at 3/1 or longer - through the opening fortnight of the World Cup.

He has three selections for Friday's matches starting with the Sweden and Japan both finding the back of the net. Check out his other two selections and why below as he takes us through his World Cup Betting Tips with his Friday Football Treble...

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For the past two years, I’ve been running the 3-3-3 column.  

Here were the rules regarding how it worked.  

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 these were the column’s results over the past two years, so pretty impressive stuff.   

• 2025-26 season Current P and L: +16.5 pts  
• 2024-25 season’s P and L: + 16.9     
• World Cup P and L: +8.83 

There will be a special edition of the 3-3-3 column during the Group Stages of the World Cup and possibly beyond. Of course, there won’t be matches picked from three different leagues this time round as they’re all from the same competition, but there will be picks from three different matches, and they’ll always come to at least 3/1 across the acca. So we’re keeping things as close as possible to the classic 3-3-3 format.  

RECAP: Another winner was confirmed on Wednesday night. We already had the Colombia victory in the bag and that was followed up by Canada easily getting over 5.5 corners (they got seven) and then it was over to Vinícius Jr, who we needed to get a goal or an assist against Scotland; he scored twice.  

So a winner at 3.67 that got us back up to 9.83 points, very much the territory we wanted to be in. But that’s gone back down to 8.83 because neither of the selections in action this morning came good.  

Time to look ahead to the action on Friday 

• Japan v Sweden     
• Friday, 26 June, 00.00 
• Back Both Teams to Score @ 4/5   

Sweden had been identified as BTTS merchants a while ago.  

We had BTTS in their match against the Netherlands that helped us to a 3-3-3 win last weekend and there’s no reason to jump ship here.  

They’re currently on a run of eight straight BTTS games after a 5-1 win and a 5-1 loss (!) at this World Cup and there’s no reason to think that playing Japan can’t see them extend that to 9 games. Though all of these matches were a long time ago, these two are 3/4 in BTTS matches between them, but more importantly, the context of the match and the closeness in quality should see goals at both ends.  

Two teams of similar ability are always a good bet for BTTS, and the fact that Sweden know they will probably need to score at least once to progress should help our cause. All in all, it’s not a hard choice to make.  

• Norway v France           
• Friday, 26 June, 20.00 
• Back over 2.5 Goals @ 4/6   

First things first, I’m perfectly aware that both these teams have already qualified to the next round and that France are big favourites to top the group. So the best attackers could be rested, and they could play out a boring 0-0 draw.  

Could. But I don’t think that’s how this is going to pan out. The likes of Haaland and Mbappe will be eyeing up that Golden Boot winner trophy and will want minutes on the pitch to try to add to those tallies while many managers resist the temptation to ring the changes to avoid disruption and to keep the momentum going.   

So I think both sides will want to put their best teams out and that equates to a lot of goalscoring potential. Besides, the stats certainly suggest any France game should really go ‘overs’.  

They’re currently on a run of 11 consecutive over 2.5 games and crucially, they conceded in eight of those, so we should really expect a Norway goal-Haaland or otherwise – to help us get to at least three.  

• Senegal v Iraq         
• Friday, 26 June, 20.00 
• Back Over 4.5 Home (Senegal) corners @ 2/5   

With two relatively high-priced selections already in the 3-3-3, we can afford a third one at a shorter price, and that’s what we’re doing.  

Senegal getting two or three goals may seem an obvious way to go about things but I’m not so sure. Three points could still see them sneak into the next round so they may just decide that any three points will do and take 1-0 and see what happens. 

So the safer bet for me is over 4.5 Senegal corners.  

They got four against Norway and France, which wouldn’t have been enough here, but then again, those are far better teams than Iraq is. Prior to the WC, their record was good with seven against Peru, six against Morocco, seven against Egypt, seven against Mali, and seven against Sudan, so in a match where they’re expected to dominate possession, we should get those five corners.   

James’s Fun Fact  

Senegal man Nicholas Jackson gets plenty of goals, but he’s no stranger to the referee’s notebook, either. Three seasons ago, he picked up 10 bookings at Chelsea, then 8 and two red cards the next season, and after moving to Bayern Munich on loan, reduced that to just four yellows but still found himself sent off twice – once against Leverkusen and then again against Saudi Arabia just before the World Cup.