Football Tips: A 7/1 treble to kick off the Copa America party

Our football tipster Paddy Murphy has a terrific South American treble as Copa America kicks off.

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22:00 (Sunday) Brazil v Venezuela: Brazil To Win 1-0, 2-0 or 3-0

Brazil’s preparation for their Copa America campaign really couldn’t have gone much better. Over their last seven matches they’ve won all of them, scoring 19 goals and conceding just two goals in only one of those matches. Venezuela’s preparation hasn’t gone nearly as well, they’ve won just one of their last six matches, drawing one and losing four.

Most worryingly for Venezuela they’ve not been scoring many of late. Over those last six matches they only managed to score three goals and they came in two matches. Brazil’s defence has been very impressive as we’ve highlighted above with their goals conceded stat. Over their last six matches, four of them have seen the Selecao winning by 1-0, 2-0 or 3-0. The Handicap of -2 is tempting here but of late they’ve become a team who are happy to defend a one or two goal lead and see out a game. We’re getting better odds on a Correct Score combination as well and knowing that this bet would have landed in four out of six previous Brazil matches we’re going with win Brazil to Win 1-0, 2-0 or 3-0.

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01:00 (Monday) Colombia v Ecuador: Both Teams To Score

Colombia come into this match as heavy favourites with the market but looking at form it’s Ecuador who are in better shape. Colombia have won just one of their last five matches, drawing two and losing two while the away side here have won three and lost two. Ecuador don’t have the best of records against Colombia though and even though they won their last encounter 6-1 in November last year, they lost all four of their prior matchups.

Colombia’s defence has been a bit of a mess of late, they’ve conceded 13 goals over their last five matches, keeping just one clean sheet over those matches. Ecuador have done a bit better, conceding eight over their five most recent fixtures but that’s still nothing to boast about really. We should add as well that both teams have scored eight and 12 over those five matches respectively and although the market is going with Colombia here there’s far better value in going for Both Teams to Score when both teams are scoring, and particularly conceding, plenty of late.

22:00 (Monday) Argentina v Chile: Both Teams To Score

Argentina and Chile get Group A underway on Tuesday night with the market heavily siding with the home side here. Both teams are in decent enough recent form even if they’ve both been drawing too many of late. Argentina are actually unbeaten over their 13 games, winning seven and drawing six. Of their last five, they’ve won two and drawn three. Chile have won two of their last five, drawing two and losing one.

There’s a healthy rivalry between both sides here, they’ve met eight times since July 2015 with Argentina winning four and four ending level in ordinary time with Chile winning two on penalties. Argentina have only kept two clean sheets over their last seven fixtures, scoring 11 and conceding seven. Chile have scored 10 over their last seven games, conceding nine and keeping just one clean sheet over those seven games. Both Teams to Score has the best price here.

All three of these picks in a treble will give you odds of over 7/1

* All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at time of publishing but subject to change.

Copa America treble summary:

22:00 (Sunday) Brazil v Venezuela: Brazil to win 1-0, 2-0 or 3-0
01:00 (Monday) Colombia v Ecuador: Both teams To Score 
22:10 (Monday) Argentina v Chile: Both Teams To Score

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