Outright Odds: 125/one
Team A Winners: four/1
Next a disastrous 2002 Earth Cup marketing campaign through which mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides potential clients only for them being overwhelmed two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland might be eager to recreate their former Globe Cup glories.
Underneath mentor Pawel Janas, Poland produced limited operate of their qualifying group, experiencing house and away victories versus Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two slim 2-1 defeats to England prevented a clean sweep but 8 wins out of ten matches was much more than ample to cement their area during the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capacity to defeat ordinary teams convincingly and they're going to need to repeat this within the grand phase if they are to repeat their wonderful 꽁머니 strategies of 1974 and 1982 through which they finished third. Having said that, they also should verify they've got what it requires to beat the much better sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia were being dispatched prior to beating Brazil to assert 3rd place.
They surely contain the firepower to do so and Polands key strength lies in assault. For the duration of qualifying they cracked in 27 objectives, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the very least as soon as in all 10 in their qualifying matches. A lot more importantly, they scored ten much more than team winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs . worthy of of strikers and only a few sides scored far more plans when compared to the Poles during the European qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Ambitions Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 plans involving them all through qualifying whilst Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is additionally in contention.