Outright Odds: 125/one
Group A Winners: 4/1
Following a disastrous 2002 Globe Cup marketing campaign during which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective customers only for them for being crushed two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland will probably be eager to recreate their former Entire world Cup glories.
Less than coach Pawel Janas, Poland designed short function in their qualifying team, having fun with dwelling and away victories towards Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two slender 2-1 defeats to England prevented a clean sweep but 8 wins outside of 10 matches was in excess of ample to cement their put from the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capacity to conquer typical teams convincingly and they'll ought to repeat this on the grand stage if they are to repeat their wonderful strategies of 1974 and 1982 during which they finished third. Nevertheless, they also ought to demonstrate they've what it's going to take to defeat the much better sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia were being dispatched prior to beating Brazil to say 3rd position.
They undoubtedly hold the firepower to do so and Polands main toughness lies in attack. During qualifying they cracked in 27 objectives, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the very least as soon as in all 10 in their qualifying matches. Far more importantly, they scored 10 http://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=꽁머니 in excess of team winners England managed for all their multi-million kilos worthy of of strikers and only three sides scored additional aims compared to 꽁머니 Poles throughout the European qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Objectives Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen targets concerning them all through qualifying when Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can also be in contention.