Outright Odds: 125/1
Group A Winners: 4/1
Following a disastrous 2002 Planet Cup campaign by which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides potential customers only for them to generally be crushed 2-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland will be keen to recreate their previous Globe Cup glories.
Beneath coach Pawel Janas, Poland made small perform in their qualifying group, making the most of dwelling and absent victories from Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slim two-one defeats to England prevented a clear sweep but 8 wins outside of ten matches was more than ample to cement their place during the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capacity to beat regular groups convincingly and they will have to repeat this around the grand phase If they're to repeat their wonderful campaigns of 1974 and 1982 by which they finished third. Nevertheless, In addition they have to establish 토토 they have got what it takes to defeat the much better sides since they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia ended up dispatched prior to beating Brazil to assert third place.
They undoubtedly provide the firepower to do so and Polands major power lies in attack. In the course of qualifying they cracked in 27 targets, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at least as soon as in all 10 in their qualifying matches. A lot more importantly, they scored 10 over group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs value of strikers and only three sides scored a lot more goals compared to Poles in the course of the ecu qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Ambitions Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen goals amongst them throughout qualifying whilst Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can also be in contention.