World Cup Betting Tips: Jamie’s Saturday Treble @ 3.6/1

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. At the time of writing we are still awaiting the third result from the opening matches but if there are over 3.5 cards in Canada vs Bosnia, it'll be a 3.7/1 winner to start us off.

He has three selections from Saturday's (UK time) matches starting with goals at both ends in USA vs Paraguay. Check out his other two selections and why below as he takes us through his World Cup Betting Tips across the first three games of the tournament...

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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     

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.  

• USA v Paraguay    
• Saturday 13 June, 02.00 
• Back Both Teams to Score @ 6/5 

One of the strategies that worked quite well during a successful 2025-26 domestic season for the 3-3-3 column was to start out the treble with an odds-against shot. Get that one right, and we could well be in business with two more to come at much shorter prices; get it wrong and…we don’t have to bother worrying about the other two. ‘Lol’, as they say.  

And the odds against chance I like here are both teams to score. Though Paraguay’s record across their last games is ok at 4 out of 8, the USA’s is an extremely strong one in this regard with 7 out of their last 8 having goals at both ends, the outlier being a 2-0 defeat to Portugal, who are generally good in defence.  

In November last year, these two played each other and ended up 2-1 to the USA, which could be a good omen.  

Whereas it’s true that there's quite a difference in the rankings – USA are 16, Paraguay are 40 – I think these two teams are closer in ability than those rankings hint at and the match odds suggest as much.  

In tight WC games, my instinct is always that 1-1 is the most likely outcome and I think that’s the case here, but so is the likes of 2-1 to either side, which would also do us just fine.   

• Qatar v Switzerland  
• Saturday 13 June, 20:00  
• Back Switzerland to win and Under 4.5 Goals @ 8/15  

Switzerland are one of the most consistent sides of all in qualifying for major tournaments and at the very least making the knockout rounds, and I don’t see why things should be any different this time round.  

They were good in qualifying again for this one, including beating Sweden both home and away and keeping four clean sheets in a row at one stage during qualifying.  

And they should be far too good for a Qatar side ranked 57th to their 19, with very little experience at this level.  

So the Swiss really should win this, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they kept a clean sheet in the process. I was going to go for an ambitious Switzerland to score and under 3.5 goals at 9/10, but I note that in their last six games, the Swiss scored three against Germany(!), four against Sweden and then again four against Jordan, so they can score more than they used to in the past, on their day.  

So I’ll play it a bit safer and go with a Swiss win with under 4.5 goals in the game at 8/15.  

• Brazil v Morocco 
• Saturday 13 June, 23.00 
• Back Over 1.5 Goals @ 4/11 

I’m glad I’m in a position to take a short price here with the first one being an odds-against shot because there aren’t many bigger prices I like in this one.  

Sure, I think Brazil will probably win but Morocco are a quality side as we saw in the last World Cup and could be good for a goal here, even if it’s in defeat. They’ve scored at least once in 15 of their last 16 matches and though most of those games were against sides weaker than Brazil, they still managed it against the likes of Ecuador and Norway, who are both decent.  

13 of Morocco’s last 14 games have had at least two goals in them, as have all of Brazil’s last eight, so whereas I wouldn’t like to predict the actual score, I think we should be good for two goals here.  

James’s Fun Fact  

We may have to wait a while before we see Brazil’s record international goalscorer in action. Neymar’s 79 goals are two more than Pele managed, with Ronaldo, Romario and Zico completing the Top 5.  Neymar isn’t 100% fit yet (when is he ever?), so a place on the bench is the best he can hope for in this one.