Outright Odds: 125/1
Group A Winners: four/one
Following a disastrous 2002 Earth Cup marketing campaign through which mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective clients just for them being beaten 2-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland might be keen to recreate their previous Planet Cup glories.
Below coach Pawel Janas, Poland built shorter function in their qualifying team, savoring home and away victories versus Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two narrow 2-1 defeats to England prevented a clear sweep but eight wins out of ten matches was greater than more than enough to cement their location while in the finals.
In qualifying they proved their power to defeat average groups convincingly and they'll have to repeat this about the grand stage Should they be to repeat their glorious campaigns of 1974 and 1982 in which they finished third. However, they also need to show they may have what it will require to beat the more robust sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia have been dispatched ahead of beating Brazil to claim 3rd area.
They surely possess the firepower to take 꽁머니 action and Polands major strength lies in attack. Throughout qualifying they cracked in 27 objectives, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored no less than as soon as in all 10 in their qualifying matches. Much more importantly, they scored ten over group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs . truly worth of strikers and only 3 sides scored more plans in comparison to the Poles during the ecu qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Targets Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen ambitions in between them for the duration of qualifying even though Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is usually in competition.