Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/one
Group A Winners: four/one
Adhering to a disastrous 2002 Globe Cup marketing campaign by which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective buyers only for them to become overwhelmed 2-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland will likely be eager to recreate their former Planet Cup glories.
Below coach Pawel Janas, Poland created limited work of their qualifying team, experiencing household and away victories versus Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slim two-1 defeats to England prevented a clean up sweep but 8 wins from 10 matches was more than plenty of to cement their location in the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capacity to conquer normal teams convincingly and they'll ought to repeat this about the grand stage Should they be to repeat their glorious campaigns of 1974 and 1982 where they completed third. Even so, In addition they have to verify they may have what it's going to take to conquer the stronger sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia were dispatched ahead of beating Brazil to assert third location.
They certainly provide the firepower to do so and Polands key strength lies in attack. For the duration of qualifying they cracked in 27 aims, notably the 8-0 thrashing of 꽁머니 Azerbaijan and scored at least at the time in all ten of their qualifying matches. More importantly, they scored 10 a lot more than group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs . value of strikers and only 3 sides scored more targets in comparison to the Poles during the ecu qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Objectives Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 aims amongst them for the duration of qualifying whilst Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is additionally in contention.