In the same way that some superstitious people will claim that bad things will come in threes, a lot of frequent punters will see the use in placing their bets in threes.

More often than not, you’ll find that a lot of football betting tips are formed from three selections, and there’s more reasoning behind this than you might realise.

Backing a treble ahead of a football accumulator or a reliable single is mostly based on the fact that three selections will offer a fair balance between odds and the chance of your bet landing successfully. Any football treble tips that you create are likely to come with odds of around 5/1. While this might be underwhelming when considering the massive 40/1 price you might get for a football accumulator consisting of six selections, you have more faith in those three selections, it’s a reasonably safe bet to get behind, and it certainly offers more than you’d get for backing a single by itself.

Variations on football treble tips -

Win Treble
The most common football treble tips that you’re likely to come across consist of three teams to win their respective fixtures. Any skill behind them goes into finding three teams that are capable of winning their games, but not to such an extent that the odds are against you. Win Treble tips are as easy to find as they are to make, with plenty of worthwhile examples at Footy Accumulators, where you’re given the choice of one over each day of the week.

BTTS Treble
While the odds will tend to be shorter than with backing teams to win, making a worthwhile Both Teams To Score treble is down to the sorts of selections you choose to include, with riskier selections leading to a larger overall price. BTTS tips are also more appealing to a lot of punters as there’s less at stake than with backing the match result, meaning that your bet could still win in the dying seconds as long as each team score at least once. This method of betting has led to other alternatives like Both Score No Draw, Full Time Result & BTTS, and the massively popular Both Teams To Score In Both Halves bet.

Over 2.5 Goals Treble
It would be more than fair to admit that this market often comes with the lowest bookmaker price, but that factor is improved upon through how easy they are to land. In backing over 2.5 goals in games featuring teams like PSG, Liverpool, Napoli, Manchester City, Borussia Dortmund or Barcelona, you’re likely to win your bet, but the odds for an Over 2.5 Goals treble are typically set around 4/1 at best.

Anytime Goalscorer Treble
Although a lot of punters wouldn’t include it as one of the most popular football treble tips, the chance to back goalscorers is something that plenty of people take an interest in, especially for the odds involved. If you’re backing a player to score, you’re likely to take odds of around 1/1, even if you’re backing someone who scores frequently, with the bookie price being even larger if you predict them to score first or next.