Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/1
Team A Winners: 4/1
Adhering to a disastrous 2002 Entire world Cup campaign by which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective clients only for them for being overwhelmed two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland will probably be eager to recreate their previous Planet Cup glories.
Underneath coach Pawel Janas, Poland manufactured shorter perform in their qualifying group, experiencing dwelling and away victories against Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slender two-one defeats to England prevented a clean up sweep but 8 wins from 10 matches was much more than plenty of to cement their area during the finals.
In qualifying they proved their ability to conquer ordinary teams convincingly and they will must repeat this to the grand stage if they are to repeat their superb campaigns of 1974 and 1982 during which they finished 3rd. However, In addition they have to show they have what it will take to beat the much better sides since they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia have been dispatched right before beating Brazil to assert third location.
They unquestionably contain the firepower to do so and Polands major power lies in attack. In the course of qualifying they cracked in 27 goals, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the very least once in all 10 of their qualifying matches. Extra importantly, they scored 10 more than group winners England managed for all their multi-million pounds value of strikers and only three sides scored a lot more ambitions in 꽁머니 comparison to the Poles through the ecu qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Aims Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen targets amongst them in the course of qualifying whilst Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can be in contention.
