Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/one
Group A Winners: four/one
Pursuing a disastrous 2002 Earth Cup marketing campaign where mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective clients just for them to become overwhelmed 2-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland is going to be eager to recreate their previous Globe Cup glories.
Beneath mentor Pawel Janas, Poland produced small work of their qualifying team, savoring residence and away victories in opposition to Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two slim two-one defeats to England prevented a clear sweep but eight wins away from ten matches was greater than plenty of to cement their location from the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capability to defeat typical groups convincingly and they will ought to repeat this around the grand phase If they're to repeat their superb strategies of 1974 and 1982 through which they concluded third. Nonetheless, In addition they ought to establish they have what it requires to defeat the stronger sides because they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia were dispatched ahead of beating Brazil to claim 3rd place.
They unquestionably contain the firepower to do so and Polands principal 꽁머니 power lies in assault. Through qualifying they cracked in 27 objectives, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at least at the time in all 10 of their qualifying matches. Much more importantly, they scored 10 greater than team winners England managed for all their multi-million pounds worthy of of strikers and only three sides scored additional aims compared to the Poles for the duration of the ecu qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Goals Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen objectives among them through qualifying while Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can also be in rivalry.