Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/1
Group A Winners: 4/one
Subsequent a disastrous 2002 Planet Cup marketing campaign by which mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides potential clients only for them to become crushed two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland will be eager to recreate their previous Earth Cup glories.
Under coach Pawel Janas, Poland produced brief operate of their qualifying group, taking pleasure in property and absent victories in opposition to Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two narrow two-one defeats to England prevented a thoroughly clean sweep but 8 wins outside of 10 matches was in excess of sufficient to cement their area while in the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capability to conquer average groups convincingly and they'll ought to repeat this about the grand phase if they are to repeat their glorious strategies of 1974 and 1982 꽁머니 in which they finished 3rd. Having said that, Additionally they ought to show they've what it takes to defeat the more powerful sides because they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia had been dispatched just before beating Brazil to assert 3rd position.
They definitely possess the firepower to do so and Polands principal power lies in assault. Through qualifying they cracked in 27 ambitions, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the very least after in all ten of their qualifying matches. Extra importantly, they scored 10 much more than group winners England managed for all their multi-million kilos value of strikers and only 3 sides scored extra objectives as opposed to Poles in the course of the European qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Objectives Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 aims in between them through qualifying though Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is likewise in competition.