Outright Odds: a hundred twenty five/1
Group A Winners: 4/one
Pursuing a disastrous 2002 Planet Cup marketing campaign through which mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective customers just for them to be beaten 2-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland might be keen to recreate their former Earth Cup glories.
Underneath mentor Pawel Janas, Poland built shorter get the job done of their qualifying team, having fun with property and away victories versus Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slender 토토 two-one defeats to England prevented a clean up sweep but 8 wins outside of 10 matches was a lot more than sufficient to cement their position inside the finals.
In qualifying they proved their ability to beat regular teams convincingly and they will must repeat this within the grand phase if they are to repeat their superb campaigns of 1974 and 1982 wherein they concluded third. Even so, Additionally they ought to show they've got what it takes to defeat the much better sides because they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia were being dispatched just before beating Brazil to say 3rd spot.
They unquestionably have the firepower to take action and Polands major toughness lies in attack. Through qualifying they cracked in 27 aims, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored no less than when in all ten of their qualifying matches. A lot more importantly, they scored ten a lot more than team winners England managed for all their multi-million kilos worthy of of strikers and only 3 sides scored a lot more targets in comparison to the Poles in the course of the ecu qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Plans Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 aims concerning them for the duration of qualifying though Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is usually in rivalry.