Football Betting Tips: Jamie’s Saturday & Early Sunday World Cup Treble

Our 3-3-3 columnist Jamie Pacheco is heating up just like the UK weather with a plethora of winners in recent days. As we head towards the end of the group stage, he has another World Cup Treble for us, with selections from the two 10PM games and one in the early hours.

Firstly he likes Ghana to avoid defeat against Croatia but what about his other two picks? Check out his other selections and why below as he takes us through his World Cup Betting Tips with his latest 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: No real update here other than to say that we got BTTS in the Japan v Sweden game to tick off the first of today’s selections. Two more to come in those and if they come good, we’ll move up to +10 points for the first time. But right now, let’s look ahead to Saturday and Sunday’s selections.  

• Croatia v Ghana      
• Saturday, 27 June, 22:00
• Back Draw or Ghana @ 19/20   

I haven’t been particularly impressed with Croatia so far, who followed up a 4-2 defeat with England with a 1-0 win over Panama, where they really did do the bare minimum.  

Ghana has looked their usual solid, organised, hard-to-beat selves, no more than you’d expect from a Carlos Queiroz side and though England had the bulk of possession the other day in that 0-0 draw, Ghana were good for a point.   

Expect far more of the same from Queiros’ team, and with both knowing a draw will do them just fine, that may well be what we end up with, though we’ll cover the Ghana win as well.  

• Panama v England          
• Saturday, 27 June, 22:00
• Back Over 6.5 Away (England) Corners @ 4/6   

This match could end 1-0 or 5-0, and I really don’t want to guess which. So I won’t.  

Instead, I’ll go back to the tried and trusted theory that England gets a lot of corners, which they do.  

They easily cleared the 5.5 mark with 9 when we had them the other day against Ghana in our 3-3-3, and before that, it was 8, 11, 8, 11 and 7 corners for them.  

They’re playing a considerably easier side in Panama than anyone they faced in any of those last six, so we should really get at least seven of them here.   

• Congo DR v Uzbekistan         
• Sunday, 28 June, 00.30 
• Back Under 3.5 Goals @ 2/7   

And here we are with the old scenario of having two selections at quite high prices, so the freedom to almost do what we want with the third.  

And the selection is that we stay under 3.5 goals. Uzbekistan have scored just 9 goals in their last 10 matches, so they struggle to score at the best of times, while Congo are cut from the same cloth.  

Just three times in their last 15 have they scored two or more goals and have had just one incident of over 2.5 goals in their last seven, so under 3.5 should be safe enough here, whoever goes on to win it.  

James’s Fun Fact  

The one and only time England played Panama, they beat them 6-1. That Harry Kane scored a hat-trick shouldn’t be that surprising, but John Stones scoring two in it certainly isn’t something you see every day.