Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/1
Team A Winners: four/one
Adhering to a disastrous 2002 Planet Cup marketing campaign through which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective clients just for them to get overwhelmed 2-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland will likely be eager to recreate their previous Globe Cup glories.
Beneath coach Pawel Janas, Poland made limited work of their qualifying group, enjoying house and away victories in opposition to Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slender two-one defeats to England prevented a cleanse sweep but eight wins outside of 10 matches was over plenty of to cement their put during the finals.
In qualifying they proved their ability to defeat regular teams convincingly and they'll ought to repeat this within the grand stage When they 꽁머니 are to repeat their wonderful campaigns of 1974 and 1982 wherein they concluded third. Nonetheless, Additionally they ought to demonstrate they've got what it will require to beat the more robust sides since they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia have been dispatched right before beating Brazil to claim third location.
They surely possess the firepower to take action and Polands principal power lies in assault. All through qualifying they cracked in 27 plans, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored not less than after in all 10 in their qualifying matches. Much 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 extra objectives when compared to the Poles during the European qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Aims Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen plans in between them in the course of qualifying although Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can also be in competition.