Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/one
Team A Winners: 4/1
Pursuing a disastrous 2002 World Cup marketing campaign during which mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides potential clients only for them for being crushed two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland is going to be eager to recreate their previous World Cup glories.
Below coach Pawel Janas, Poland built short function in their qualifying team, taking pleasure in property and away victories in opposition to Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two narrow 2-1 defeats to England prevented a clear sweep but 8 wins outside of 10 matches was more than enough to cement their place from the finals.
In qualifying they proved their ability to beat common teams convincingly and they'll must repeat this around the grand stage Should they be to repeat their glorious campaigns of 1974 and 1982 by which 꽁머니 they finished 3rd. Nonetheless, In addition they ought to verify they have got what it will take to defeat the more powerful sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia were dispatched prior to beating Brazil to claim third place.
They absolutely contain the firepower to take action and Polands main strength lies in assault. All through qualifying they cracked in 27 plans, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the very least when in all ten of their qualifying matches. More importantly, they scored ten greater than team winners England managed for all their multi-million pounds really worth of strikers and only a few sides scored much more plans compared to Poles during the European qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Targets Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 goals between them throughout qualifying although Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is also in contention.