Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/one
Team A Winners: four/one
Adhering to a disastrous 2002 Earth Cup campaign through which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective buyers just for them to be crushed two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland might be eager to recreate their previous Entire world Cup glories.
Below coach Pawel Janas, Poland built limited perform of their qualifying team, making the most of property and absent victories against Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slender 2-one defeats to England prevented a thoroughly clean sweep but eight wins from ten matches was more than more than enough to cement their place within the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capacity to conquer common groups convincingly and they will should repeat this about the grand phase if they are to repeat their wonderful strategies of 1974 and 1982 by which they concluded 3rd. Nevertheless, Additionally they ought to confirm they have what it will require to conquer the more powerful sides because they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia were being dispatched before beating Brazil to assert third area.
They definitely possess the firepower to take action and Polands key strength lies in attack. Throughout qualifying they cracked in 27 ambitions, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the very least after in all ten of their 꽁머니 qualifying matches. More importantly, they scored ten more than group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs . worthy of of strikers and only 3 sides scored extra goals when compared to the Poles for the duration of the ecu qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Objectives Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen targets involving them in the course of qualifying although Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is usually in competition.