Football Betting Tips: Jamie’s Sunday World Cup Treble

Our 3-3-3 columnist Jamie Pacheco has enjoyed a profitable Group Stage with six winners (with two columns to finish) from 16, which when you consider every treble is 3/1 or longer, ensures he'll end up ahead once all is said and done.

Check out his three selections for Sunday 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: +12.02 

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 Friday night with over 2.5 goals in France v Norway (4-1) to go with over 5.5 Senegal corners (12) after we already had BTTS in the Japan v Sweden game the night before.  

That takes our profit up to 12.02 points over 15 days, which is pretty good by any metric and continues the success of the patented 3-3-3 column, which boasted profits of 16.9 points during the 2024-25 season and 16.5 points during the 2025-26 season.  

So, for the time being, this is our final 3-3-3 entry of this World Cup, and the absolute worst-case scenario is that the Saturday/Sunday column and the Sunday (this one) both lose and we end up with ‘just’ 10.02 points in profit. But of course, they could both win and we could end up with a better P and L than that. Let’s see.  

• Colombia v Portugal  
• Sunday, 28 June, 00.30 
• Back Cristiano Ronaldo, Bruno Fernandes and Luis Diaz to have a shot on target each @ 6/4   

Not the sort of selection I would normally go for but it’s just one of those that caught the eye and you think ‘yeah, that could easily happen’, not to mention, it’s at the big price of 6/4, giving us plenty of flexibility for the rest of the acca.  

For starters, all three players are expected to start.  Both teams will want to top the group, knowing that will lead to (probably) playing Croatia in the next round rather than Ghana, and avoiding Spain next if they do get past Ghana.  

Luis Diaz has a goal from three shots on target, Ronaldo has two goals from five shots on target (10 in total) while the slight worry here, Bruno Fernandes, has just the one shot on target so far. But as much as he’s more of an assists man these days, he’s not afraid to have a pop.  

Because of the scenario here, very different to the one in other matches where a draw suits both teams, I think we might have quite an open game and all three may well be in business here for a shot on target.  

• Algeria v Austria           
• Sunday, 28 June, 03.00 
• Back Draw or Austria @ 1/4   

This match is a good example of what I was talking about just now.  

A draw would guarantee both sides a place in the next round and neither will be particularly interested in desperately trying to win the match because Argentina are almost certain to do that by beating Jordan.  

We’ve already seen a couple of matches where a draw would suit either team, ending up as stalemates, and whereas that’s not great for the tournament, it does sort of make our life easier as punters.  

In other words, this looks like it could easily end up as the draw we suspect it might but if the teams play in the ‘right’ spirit and go for it, I don’t think Algeria will beat Austria anyway, so it’s an easy choice.  

• South Africa v Canada         
• Sunday, 28 June, 20.00 
• Back Over 4.5 Away (Canada) Corners @ 2/5   

Canada have been our corners darlings so far, backing them twice to beat a corners line and winning twice, in the process also helping us win two 3-3-3 columns.  

There’s no reason to jump ship on them now. They were down a bit on their corners count with 7 against Switzerland after 19 against Qatar and 9 against Bosnia, and had a very strong record in friendlies before that, so there are few concerns they can’t get to five here.  

This could be a tougher match for Canada than the odds suggest in terms of winning it, but Canada should have more possession, more chances, and hopefully a fair few corners here.  

James’s Fun Fact  

All of Nuno Mendes, Joao Felix, Joao Neves and Rafa Leao scored a goal for Portugal at this World Cup from their only shot on target.