Outright Odds: 125/one
Group A Winners: 4/one
Subsequent a disastrous 2002 토토 Environment Cup marketing campaign through which mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospects only for them being overwhelmed 2-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland is going to be keen to recreate their previous World Cup glories.
Less than mentor Pawel Janas, Poland built limited perform of their qualifying team, savoring dwelling and absent victories versus Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two slim 2-one defeats to England prevented a cleanse sweep but 8 wins away from ten matches was in excess of ample to cement their spot while in the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capacity to conquer typical teams convincingly and they're going to have to repeat this to the grand stage Should they be to repeat their glorious campaigns of 1974 and 1982 by which they completed 3rd. Even so, In addition they ought to confirm they've what it takes to defeat the more robust sides since they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia have been dispatched ahead of beating Brazil to claim third put.
They certainly possess the firepower to do so and Polands principal power lies in attack. Throughout qualifying they cracked in 27 aims, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored a minimum of at the time in all 10 of their qualifying matches. Far more importantly, they scored ten more than group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs . really worth of strikers and only a few sides scored extra aims compared to the Poles during the eu qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Plans Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen aims amongst them for the duration of qualifying though Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is usually in contention.