Football Accumulator Tips: Jamie aims for another 3-3-3 winner

A great winner for us last time at 4.23/1 means we’re back in profit and back in business, so let’s try to kick on and improve on that further.  

Jamie Pacheco talks you through his selections for the week in yet another edition of the 3-3-3 column as he takes us through his three selections as part of his Football Accumulator Tips across Europe this weekend...

Welcome to the 3-3-3 betting column. Why is it called that? Glad you asked.  It’s not a formation to play when you’ve had a man sent off but rather: 

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 it really is as simple as that. The selections can be from any betting markets, as long as they meet the criteria set out above.  And to round things off, every week I’ll leave you with a cool (or at least I think so) bit of trivia involving one of the teams featured in the acca. Simples... 

Current P and L: +3.84pts  

A lovely winner last week for the column, with the added bonus that it won at considerably bigger odds (4.23/1) than the 3-3-3 column’s minimum requirement of 3/1, so in effect we not only got back to profit with something to spare but because of the bigger odds, sort of bought ourselves a free ticket for this week’s action. Or at least that’s one way of looking at it. 

From memory it was one of the tighter wins we had with the BTTS match ending 2-1 and us winning the under 9.5 corners bet with just one corner to spare. The comfortable win was our man Vangelis Pavlidis getting a goal because he actually got two.  

By the way, if you follow my several betting columns and happen to see ’Vange’ (I feel like we’re mates by now) down the local by any chance, buy him a drink. In the last couple of weeks, he’s scored every time we backed him: at 21/10 (away at Juventus a couple of weeks ago), at 7/4 (away at Monaco this week) and of course for last week’s 3-3-3. And that was just in the last couple of weeks because he’s been a winner for us a few times before that.  

But enough about the prolific Greek striker though, because we’re looking to go for back-to-back wins for the first time this season.  

Atalanta v Cagliari    

Saturday, February 15 14:00 

Selection: (Yes) Both Teams to Score @ 4/5 

Pavlidis isn’t the only golden boy of this column because Atalanta have been a good ally of it, too.  

And when we talk about Atalanta, the conversation normally goes towards the subject of goals. And plenty of them, the only question being which market to play to get the best out of them and their love for open games.  

They’re at home to Cagliari this weekend and it’s the 4/5 on both teams to score that I’m eyeing up.  

It’s a pretty big price about an outcome (both teams to score) that has been a winner in 10/11 of their home games this season so far. And if your next question is: what about Cagliari’s away record, then you’re going to like the answer. They have a 63% win rate for BTTS matches on the road, including goals at both ends in three of their last four away from home.   

We can’t go out and score the goals ourselves but we can go into the match confident that’s an excellent price in light of those stats.  

Santa Clara v Benfica     

Saturday, February 15 18:00  

Selection: Over 1.5 goals @ 2/5  

With our other two selections being at big odds (relatively speaking) we can afford to have a shorter one here, so we will.  

No, we’re not going to the well with Pavlidis once again because even wells dry up now and then.  

Instead, we’re going with over 1.5 goals in the match which has been a winner in 90% of Benfica’s away matches this season and 82% of their home games, in addition to 54% of Santa Clara’s home games and would have won in each of the last 12(!) times these two played each other.  

Lens V Strasbourg 

Sunday, February 16 16:15  

Selection: Back Over 42.5 bookings points @ 5/6      

If it’s cards rather than goals you want to see this weekend, then this might be the match for you to tune into.  

Ligue 1 isn’t normally known for particularly feisty matches but these two are among the scrappier teams in the division.  

Six of Lens’ 10 home matches this season went over the 42.5 point-barrier for bookings points with three of those games also having a red card in them. Opponents Strasbourg boast similar numbers: 54% of their games on the road have gone over 42.5 points although ‘worryingly’ there were no reds in them.  

This bet would have been a winner in three of the last four clashes between these two so that’s another positive.  

James’ Fun Fact  

Santa Clara are one of two Portuguese clubs currently in the Superliga, who are not based on the Portuguese mainland. They’re on the Azorean island of Sao Miguel while Nacional da Madeira are based in…Madeira.