Sunday World Cup Betting Tips: Jamie’s 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. He's already started with profit having nailed a treble over the opening three matches. Can he continue his good form over the weekend?

He has three selections from Sunday's (UK time) matches starting with Scotland leading the corner count against Haiti. Check out his other two selections and why below as he takes us through his Sunday 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: +3.7 

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: A lovely winner in our first column of the World Cup at 4.61 to get us underway. Mexico delivered with a win in an under 3.5 goals game and we just about got the four corners we needed for Korea to get (it paid to not be too ambitious here as per the column because there were exactly four).  

So it was left to Canada and Bosnia to get us four cards in the match and they did so relatively comfortably, with five in the game.  

So, we’re in profit already and are already 1/1 in the second column with both teams scoring in the USA v Paraguay match, which at 6/5 was the biggest priced of the three selections, so we’re certainly in business with that one, too.     

As regards the next one, there are four matches between today and midnight on Sunday/Monday, so we have the luxury of being able to pick three from four of those.  

• Haiti v Scotland    
• Sunday 14 June, 02.00 
• Back Scotland Most Corners @ 4/9

A well-organised Scotland side with a couple of class players in it should be too good for a Haiti side that will be happy just to be here, but tough conditions will surely play their part, so don’t be surprised if Scotland win it by the single goal and are happy just to get those points on the board.  

It doesn’t always work out that the favourite with more possession and more chances gets the most corners, but we think that might be the case here.  

Scotland’s corner count has been good recently, with 8 against Curacao and 7 against the Ivory Coast, just two examples of how they can rack them up.  

They’ve had 55 across their last 10, averaging 5.5 per game, and this includes facing some good opposition like Japan. If they keep somewhere near that number, it should be too many for Haiti, who have struggled to win many corner battles, even when up against very moderate opposition.  

Scotland to get the most corners looks pretty safe here.  

• Germany v Curacao   
• Sunday 14 June, 18:00  
• Back Over 3.5 Home Goals @ 4/6  

If it looks like there’s a good chance that a fine Germany side could run riot against a Curacao one making their World Cup debut, then that may just be what we get here.  

The first clue is that Curacao have struggled of late against decent opposition, leaking four against Scotland and five against Australia. I think it’s fair to say that Germany are a cut above both those two. 

In their last five games, they managed to beat Switzerland 4-3, Slovakia 6-0 and Finland 4-0, again, all better teams than Haiti, so they can put the ball away when in the mood.  

There are lots of ways to play the theory that Germany could win this comfortably but going with them getting at least four goals seems the most sensible.  

• Netherlands v Japan 
• Sunday 14 June, 21.00 
• Back Both teams to score @ 4/5 

You’ll hear me say plenty of times that in close matches at a World Cup, 1-1 should be the favourite on the correct score market and this match is a good example of that, although Netherlands are warm favourites to win it.  

If you were to look at Japan’s recent results, you’d think they’re very much not a BTTS team. Their last five all resulted in wins and were all without conceding and that included a 1-0 over England at Wembley. But what that does tell me is that they’re always good for at least a goal of their own, which is important because, as we know, they’re the underdogs, so of the two teams, they’re the one least likely to score, statistically.  

The Netherlands, on the other hand, are good for BTTS backers. Three of their last four friendlies since their last WC qualifying match saw goals at both ends and they had a decent record for BTTS matches in qualifying, too.  

I think both sides have too much going forward to not score, and this should be a competitive heat here, so I think we’ll get at least a goal each, even if that’s all we get.  

James’s Fun Fact  

Who would you think is the record scorer in the Netherlands ’ history? Goal-machine Huntelaar? The uber-talented van Persie?  How about the classy Bergkamp?  

All those make the Top 5, but sitting at the top is Memphis Depay, who has scored 52 in 102. That, by the way, is a slightly better return than Van Persie, who scored two fewer in the same 102 matches.  

Now at Corinthians, Depay is in the Netherlands squad and looking to add to his tally at this World Cup. It would be good for us if he got one here.