Outright Odds: 125/one
Group A Winners: 4/1
Following a disastrous 2002 Globe Cup campaign in which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective clients just for them to become beaten two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland will likely be keen to recreate their previous Earth Cup glories.
Underneath mentor Pawel Janas, Poland created limited do the job of their qualifying group, savoring household and away victories against Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slim 2-one defeats to England prevented a thoroughly clean sweep but eight wins away from 10 matches was more than plenty of to cement their put inside the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capability to defeat regular groups convincingly and they're going to should repeat this within the grand phase If they're to repeat their superb strategies of 1974 and 1982 during which they finished 3rd. Even so, Additionally they need to confirm they've got what it requires to defeat the stronger sides since they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia had been dispatched right before beating Brazil to say third position.
They unquestionably have the firepower to take action and Polands main toughness lies in attack. All through qualifying they cracked in 27 goals, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the very least after in all ten of their qualifying matches. Far more importantly, they scored 토토 ten greater than group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs . value of strikers and only a few sides scored a lot more goals than the Poles in the course of the European qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Aims Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen objectives concerning them for the duration of qualifying although Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is likewise in rivalry.