Outright Odds: 125/one
Group A Winners: four/1
Pursuing a disastrous 2002 Planet Cup campaign wherein coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospects just for them to get beaten two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland will be eager to recreate their former Earth Cup glories.
Underneath coach Pawel Janas, Poland produced shorter operate in their qualifying group, making the most of dwelling and away victories versus Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slim 2-1 defeats to England prevented a clear sweep but 8 wins away from ten matches was a lot more than enough to cement their area from the finals.
In qualifying they proved their ability to beat common groups convincingly and they'll have to repeat this on the grand stage When they are to repeat their superb strategies of 1974 and 1982 by which they finished 3rd. Even so, Additionally they must confirm they may have what it requires to conquer the more robust sides 꽁머니 as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia had been dispatched before beating Brazil to assert third place.
They surely have the firepower to take action and Polands key strength lies in attack. Throughout qualifying they cracked in 27 aims, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the very least after in all 10 in their qualifying matches. Far more importantly, they scored 10 more than team winners England managed for all their multi-million pounds really worth of strikers and only a few sides scored more goals compared to the Poles all through the European qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Goals Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen objectives among them for the duration of qualifying when Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is usually in rivalry.