Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/one
Group A Winners: four/1
Subsequent a disastrous 2002 Planet Cup marketing campaign in which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides potential clients just for them to get beaten 2-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland might be keen to recreate their former Planet Cup glories.
Beneath coach Pawel Janas, Poland manufactured limited work of their qualifying group, savoring residence and absent victories versus Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern 토토 Ireland and Wales. Two slim 2-1 defeats to England prevented a cleanse sweep but 8 wins out of ten matches was much more than sufficient to cement their put during the finals.
In qualifying they proved their ability to beat normal teams convincingly and they'll have to repeat this on the grand stage if they are to repeat their wonderful campaigns of 1974 and 1982 where they finished third. On the other hand, In addition they should verify they have got what it will take to beat the more powerful sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia were dispatched just before beating Brazil to assert 3rd position.
They surely possess the firepower to do so and Polands primary energy lies in attack. For the duration of qualifying they cracked in 27 ambitions, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored not less than once in all ten of their qualifying matches. Much more importantly, they scored ten in excess of group winners England managed for all their multi-million kilos really worth of strikers and only 3 sides scored additional objectives than the Poles during the eu qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Ambitions Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen ambitions concerning them for the duration of qualifying even though Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can also be in rivalry.