Outright Odds: 125/one
Team A Winners: four/1
Following a disastrous 2002 Planet Cup campaign during which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his 토토 sides prospects just for them to generally be crushed 2-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland might be eager to recreate their former Entire world Cup glories.
Under coach Pawel Janas, Poland made limited perform of their qualifying group, savoring home and away victories against Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slender two-one defeats to England prevented a clean sweep but 8 wins out of 10 matches was a lot more than adequate to cement their spot from the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capability to beat common teams convincingly and they're going to must repeat this within the grand stage When they are to repeat their wonderful campaigns of 1974 and 1982 during which they concluded 3rd. Nevertheless, they also really need to confirm they have got what it takes to defeat the much better sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia were dispatched prior to beating Brazil to claim third put.
They surely hold the firepower to take action and Polands main energy lies in attack. Through qualifying they cracked in 27 targets, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored not less than the moment in all 10 in their qualifying matches. Far more importantly, they scored 10 a lot more than group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs worthy of of strikers and only three sides scored much more goals compared to the Poles all through the ecu qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Targets Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen objectives in between them through qualifying although Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can be in rivalry.