Outright Odds: 125/one
Team A Winners: 4/one
Following a disastrous 2002 Planet Cup campaign through which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective clients just for them to generally be crushed two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland will probably be eager to recreate their previous Earth Cup glories.
Underneath coach Pawel Janas, Poland manufactured limited function of their qualifying team, savoring household and absent victories versus Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two slender 2-1 defeats to England prevented a thoroughly clean sweep but eight wins out of 10 matches was in excess of ample to cement their put within the finals.
In qualifying they proved their ability to beat regular groups convincingly and they'll really need to repeat this about the grand phase if they are to repeat their wonderful strategies of 1974 and 1982 wherein they finished third. However, they also ought to demonstrate they have got what it requires to conquer the more powerful sides because they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia were being dispatched right before beating Brazil to assert 3rd location.
They definitely hold the firepower to take action and Polands main toughness lies in assault. In the course of qualifying they cracked in 27 objectives, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the very least once in all ten of their qualifying matches. More importantly, they scored ten a lot more than team winners England managed for all their multi-million pounds well worth 꽁머니 of strikers and only three sides scored much more plans as opposed to Poles throughout the ecu qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Targets Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen aims involving them for the duration of qualifying whilst Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is additionally in competition.