Tuesday Football Tips: Jamie’s World Cup Treble @ 4.16/1

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.

He has three selections for Tuesday's matches starting both goalkeepers set to pick the ball out of the net in the early hours. Check out his other two selections and why below as he takes us through his World Cup Betting Tips with his Tuesday Football 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: +16.5 pts  
• 2024-25 season’s P and L: + 16.9     
• World Cup P and L: +3.56 

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 got the first two right yesterday, but not the third, so we go back to +3.86 points. And to be honest, we can have few complaints about missing out yesterday.  

We were somewhat fortunate that Spain didn’t get a fifth when we had them to win with four or fewer goals (including having one marginally disallowed at 4-0 up) and shouldn’t be bitter that our Belgium to win to nil selection didn’t come off. They were poor on the day and it was Iran who came closest with a disallowed goal of their own, so it would have been pretty lucky if we’d pulled that one-off.  

But Egypt won in the early hours as the first of today’s selections, so we now need Messi and Mbappe to do their thing.  

• Norway v Senegal         
• Tuesday, 23 June, 01.00 
• Back Both Teams to Score @ 4/6    

One of those where it's not worth overcomplicating things.  

These are two well-matched sides, and if anything, I think Norway look a bit short on the match odds at 23/20 because there’s not much to place these two; Senegal has plenty of power and experience throughout the team. They had France under pressure at some stage, so they will at the very least give Norway a run for their money.  

And a game with two well-matched sides is certainly a tick for it being a BTTS match.  

This has been a BTTS World Cup so far, and with BTTS being a winner in both of these two teams’ first matches at the WC and also a winner in the only time they met (2-1 Senegal) this looks to have 1-1 or 2-1 to either side written all over it. Let’s hope so.  

• Portugal v Uzbekistan       
• Tuesday, 23 June, 18.00 
• Back Portugal to win and Under 3.5 Goals @ 19/20   

The good news for Portugal is that they’ll do well to be any worse than they were against DR Congo.  

They should have learned a few lessons from last week’s match, and one of those is not to leave it too late. They should have been far more ambitious from the opening minutes of the second half, rather than leaving it to the end to take risks, while playing an uninspired Ronaldo for the full 90 may not happen again. Let’s see. 

Let’s also see whether they deserve some faith in them from me, but they didn’t stop being one of the best sides in the world overnight.  

So they should win, but it’s unlikely the floodgates will open. That 3-1 against Colombia was the first time in 17 matches their opponents conceded three, so that’s somewhat unlikely to happen again.  

And Portugal could well be good for a clean sheet, so a win for the favourites – any one of 1-0, 2-0, 2-1 or 3-0 would do us fine – with less than 3.5 goals is the selection.  

• England v Ghana        
• Tuesday, 23 June 21:00  
• Back Over 5.5 Home (England) corners @ 4/7  

It's hard to know what sort of England may turn up. An attacking and slightly carefree one looking to win this convincingly or a pragmatic and professional one happy to take 1-0 and guarantee their place in the next round? 

With much uncertainty regarding that, let’s focus instead on one area where they’ve been remarkably consistent: getting lots of corners.   

There were eight against Croatia the other day and that was preceded by: 11 (Costa Rica), 8 (New Zealand), 11 (Japan), 7 (Uruguay), 5 (Albania), 6 (Serbia), 9 (Latvia), 8 (Wales) and 6 (Serbia). I could go further back, but you get the picture.  

So it doesn’t seem to matter which team they play or who plays for them; they get a lot of corners. So over 5.5 corners would have won in each of their last 12 matches, and though we could be more ambitious than that and go for more, we don’t need to. So we won’t.  

James’s Fun Fact  

England’s 4-2 win over Croatia was the fourth match in a row where England failed to have a player booked.