Monday World Cup Betting Tips: Jamie’s 3/1 Treble

After two seasons of good profit, our 3-3-3 columnist Jamie Pacheco is back with a World Cup special edition of his 3-3-3 column, where he picks out a daily treble. A strong start on the opening slate of games got him out of the block straightaway.

He has three selections from Monday's (UK time) matches starting with Ivory Coast to have at least four corners. Check out his other two selections and why below as he takes us through his Monday World Cup Betting Tips...

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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: +16.5pts  

2024-25 season’s P and L: +16.9pts     

World Cup P and L: +2.7 

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: We were cruelly denied a winner on Day 2 as a result of Qatar’s late, late equaliser. With the BTTS in the USA game already in the bag, we needed a Switzerland win with fewer than five goals, and that late goal from Qatar meant we didn’t get it; as predicted, there were two goals in the Brazil v Morocco game, so it was just that Qatar match that let us down.  

And we won’t have a winner on Day 3 because we fell at the first hurdle, with Scotland winning the game but not the corners battle. They had just three to Haiti’s four. 

But we’re still 1.7 points in profit as a result of that first day winner, so let’s try to improve on that.  

• Ivory Coast v Ecuador     
• Monday June 15, 00:00 
• Back Over 3.5 Ivory Coast corners @ 8/11 

This is one of those matches where I really wouldn’t like to try to predict the outcome. 

So I won’t and will instead focus on Ivory Coast corners.   

They have extremely strong numbers when it comes to winning corners of late. Here’s their corner count from their last 8 matches: 2 (against France), 5, 5, 7, 5, 8, 7, 9. 

Some of those were against good sides like South Korea and Scotland, sides roughly at the same level as Ecuador. 

Going back further than that to WC qualifying and they managed 18 against Seychelles, and 11 against Chad and Gabon.  Weaker sides than Ecuador, but there’s clearly a trend for a high number of corners for them.  

Those numbers suggest we could be in business on over 4.5 Ivory Coast corners at a big-looking 6/4 but we saw in that Korea game that pushing the boat out for one more at a bigger price is fraught with danger.  

Thankfully, we resisted the temptation in that Korea game because we needed four, got exactly four and that helped the acca win.  

Besides, whereas the Ivory Coast have an excellent record when it comes to winning corners, Ecuador don’t concede that many, so that puts us off a bit and we’ll play it a bit safer.  

• Spain v Cape Verde   
• Monday 15 June, 17:00  
• Back Spain to win to nil @ 4/7  

This is one of those selections where it could pay to keep things simple.  

Few would doubt that Spain will win this match as one of the favourites against a side making their WC debut and some will be interested in the prospect of a high-scoring 4-0 or 5-0. But it’s hard to know how ambitious Spain will be to win this very comfortably in testing conditions when they don’t really to.  

So it may be better to just go with them winning without conceding. Though their last three matches ended 0-0, 3-1 and 1-1, before that they won six of their seven matches to nil, beating the likes of Georgia 4-0, Turkey 6-0 and Serbia 3-0.  

They’re generally excellent in defence, and I can’t see this lot causing them any problems. Let’s hope not.     

• Belgium v Egypt 
• Monday, June 15, 20.00 
• Back Jeremy Doku to have a shot on target @ 1/2 

Not the sort of selection I normally post, but I simply can’t resist here.  

Jeremy Doku was in fantastic form at the back end of the season for Man City and, at times, almost single-handedly kept City in the title hunt.  

One thing that was noticeable was that he seems more inclined to go for goal now rather than always trying to beat defenders on the outside and try to get crosses in.  

He’s very much the in-form man among Belgium’s attackers and will look to take on extra responsibility. I wouldn’t be surprised if he goes on to score a goal here, but I think he should get a shot on target in there somewhere.  

James’s Fun Fact  

It could be a tale of two Caicedos for Ecuador against the Ivory Coast. While Chelsea’s Moises Caicedo is the team’s engine room, Jordy Caicedo is the team’s best chance of a goal, having scored 8 goals in 17 appearances for Huracan this season. But he’s no angel, also picking up 8 yellows in the process.