Outright Odds: a hundred twenty five/one
Group A Winners: four/1
Following a disastrous 2002 Earth Cup campaign during which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides potential customers only for them to generally be crushed two-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland will be keen to recreate their former World Cup glories.
Less than mentor Pawel Janas, Poland manufactured small function of their qualifying group, enjoying residence and away victories from Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two slender two-one defeats to England prevented a thoroughly clean sweep but eight wins away from ten matches was much more than plenty of to cement their area from the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capability to conquer ordinary teams convincingly and they'll must repeat this on the grand stage if they are to repeat their glorious campaigns of 1974 and 1982 wherein they concluded 3rd. Nonetheless, In addition they must prove 토토 they've got what it requires to conquer the more robust sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia have been dispatched prior to beating Brazil to say third place.
They undoubtedly possess the firepower to do so and Polands principal power lies in attack. Throughout qualifying they cracked in 27 plans, 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 greater than team winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs . worth of strikers and only three sides scored extra aims compared to Poles through the European qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Aims Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen targets in between them throughout qualifying while Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is also in competition.