Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/1
Group A Winners: four/1
Following a disastrous 2002 Globe Cup marketing campaign through which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective customers just for them to be overwhelmed 2-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland will probably be eager to recreate their previous Earth Cup glories.
Under coach 꽁머니 Pawel Janas, Poland created limited perform of their qualifying group, experiencing house and absent victories in opposition to Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two narrow 2-1 defeats to England prevented a clear sweep but 8 wins outside of ten matches was more than plenty of to cement their put while in the finals.
In qualifying they proved their ability to beat common teams convincingly and they will should repeat this over the grand phase When they are to repeat their wonderful strategies of 1974 and 1982 where they finished 3rd. On the other hand, they also need to prove they have got what it will take to conquer the much better sides because they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia have been dispatched before beating Brazil to say 3rd location.
They undoubtedly possess the firepower to do so and Polands main strength lies in assault. In the course of qualifying they cracked in 27 ambitions, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored no less than at the time in all ten of their qualifying matches. More importantly, they scored ten more than group winners England managed for all their multi-million pounds worth of strikers and only a few sides scored additional ambitions compared to Poles during the ecu qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Aims Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen plans in between them for the duration of qualifying whilst Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is likewise in contention.