Outright Odds: 125/1
Team A Winners: 4/1
Pursuing a disastrous 2002 World Cup marketing campaign through which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides potential customers only for them to get beaten 2-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland will likely be keen to recreate their previous Planet Cup glories.
Less than mentor Pawel Janas, Poland produced limited do the job of their qualifying group, having fun with house and absent victories in opposition to Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two slender two-1 defeats to 꽁머니 England prevented a clean sweep but eight wins outside of 10 matches was over sufficient to cement their area inside the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capability to defeat ordinary groups convincingly and they will must repeat this to the grand phase if they are to repeat their glorious campaigns of 1974 and 1982 through which they completed third. However, Additionally they really need to confirm they have what it will require to beat the more robust sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia have been dispatched ahead of beating Brazil to claim third position.
They surely contain the firepower to do so and Polands primary power lies in attack. Through qualifying they cracked in 27 goals, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the very least at the time in all ten of their qualifying matches. Extra importantly, they scored ten more than group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs well worth of strikers and only a few sides scored a lot more targets compared to Poles all through the ecu qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Objectives Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 objectives in between them throughout qualifying while Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is also in contention.