Outright Odds: a hundred twenty five/1
Team A Winners: four/1
Next a disastrous 2002 Planet Cup marketing campaign through which mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospects only for them to become crushed 2-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland might be eager to recreate their previous Planet Cup glories.
Under coach Pawel Janas, Poland manufactured shorter get the job done in their qualifying group, experiencing household and away victories towards Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two narrow two-1 defeats to England prevented a clear sweep but eight wins away from 10 matches was more than adequate to cement their spot inside the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capability to conquer normal teams convincingly and they will must repeat this within the grand stage if they are to repeat their glorious campaigns of 1974 and 1982 through which they concluded third. On the other hand, they also must establish they may have what it takes to beat the more powerful sides since they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia had been dispatched just before beating Brazil to claim 3rd location.
They certainly possess the firepower to do so and Polands most important energy lies in assault. Throughout qualifying they cracked in 27 objectives, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the very least at the time in all ten of their qualifying matches. Extra importantly, they scored 10 greater than group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs really worth of strikers and only three sides scored far more aims in comparison to the Poles throughout the eu qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Objectives Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen ambitions concerning them during qualifying when Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can also be in 꽁머니 contention.