Outright Odds: 125/one
Group A Winners: 4/one
Next a disastrous 2002 Planet Cup marketing campaign wherein mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides potential customers only for them to become crushed two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland is going to be keen to recreate their previous World Cup glories.
Less than coach Pawel Janas, Poland produced short work in their qualifying team, enjoying residence and away victories versus Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slim two-one defeats to England prevented a clean sweep but 8 wins outside of ten matches 꽁머니 was a lot more than plenty of to cement their position inside the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capability to defeat normal teams convincingly and they're going to really need to repeat this about the grand stage When they are to repeat their wonderful strategies of 1974 and 1982 during which they concluded 3rd. Nonetheless, In addition they should show they have what it will take to defeat the more robust sides since they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia have been dispatched in advance of beating Brazil to assert 3rd put.
They absolutely provide the firepower to take action and Polands primary strength lies in assault. All through qualifying they cracked in 27 targets, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored no less than at the time in all 10 in their qualifying matches. Extra importantly, they scored 10 more than team winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs worthy of of strikers and only 3 sides scored much more aims than the Poles in the course of the eu qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Plans Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen objectives among them all through qualifying while Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can be in competition.
