Outright Odds: a hundred twenty five/one
Team A Winners: 4/one
Pursuing a disastrous 2002 Earth Cup marketing campaign by which mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides potential clients just for them to become overwhelmed 2-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland are going to be keen to recreate their former Planet Cup glories.
Under mentor Pawel Janas, Poland built shorter operate of their qualifying team, making the most of residence and absent victories towards Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slender two-one defeats to England prevented a thoroughly clean sweep but eight wins outside of 10 matches was much more than enough to cement their put from the finals.
In qualifying they 꽁머니 proved their ability to conquer typical teams convincingly and they'll ought to repeat this to the grand phase Should they be to repeat their glorious strategies of 1974 and 1982 in which they finished third. On the other hand, In addition they must establish they've what it takes to beat the more powerful sides since they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia were being dispatched in advance of beating Brazil to assert third place.
They unquestionably possess the firepower to do so and Polands principal strength lies in assault. For the duration of qualifying they cracked in 27 goals, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored not less than when in all ten in their qualifying matches. A lot more importantly, they scored 10 a lot more than group winners England managed for all their multi-million kilos worthy of of strikers and only three sides scored far more goals as opposed to Poles throughout the ecu qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Ambitions Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen targets amongst them for the duration of qualifying whilst Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is likewise in competition.