Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/one
Group A Winners: 4/1
Adhering to a disastrous 2002 Planet Cup marketing campaign in which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective buyers just for them to be overwhelmed 2-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland are going to be keen to recreate their former Earth Cup glories.
Less than coach Pawel Janas, Poland produced short operate of their qualifying group, having fun with dwelling and absent victories towards Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slender 2-one defeats to England prevented a thoroughly clean sweep but 8 wins outside of ten matches was more than plenty of to cement their area from the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capability to defeat average teams convincingly and they'll really need to repeat this over the grand stage If they're to repeat their glorious strategies of 1974 and 1982 by which they finished third. Nevertheless, Additionally they really need to confirm they've what it's going to take to defeat the much better sides because they did in 1974, when Argentina, 꽁머니 Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia were dispatched right before beating Brazil to assert third place.
They unquestionably possess the firepower to do so and Polands most important power lies in attack. All through qualifying they cracked in 27 ambitions, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at least after in all ten in their qualifying matches. Far more importantly, they scored 10 a lot more than group winners England managed for all their multi-million pounds value of strikers and only a few sides scored far more ambitions when compared to the Poles in the course of the eu qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Objectives Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 goals in between them for the duration of qualifying when Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is likewise in contention.