Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/1
Team A Winners: four/one
Following a disastrous 2002 Entire world Cup marketing campaign by which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospects only for them being crushed 2-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland will likely be eager to recreate their former Earth Cup glories.
Less than mentor Pawel Janas, Poland created quick function of their qualifying group, having fun with property and absent victories in opposition to Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two slim 2-one defeats to England prevented a cleanse sweep but 8 wins outside of ten matches was much more than enough to cement their place inside the finals.
In qualifying they proved their power to conquer normal teams convincingly and they will really need to repeat this around the grand phase If they're to repeat their superb strategies of 1974 and 1982 where they concluded 3rd. Nevertheless, Additionally they must verify they may have what it will take to conquer the much better sides since they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia were being dispatched in advance of beating Brazil to assert third put.
They undoubtedly contain the firepower to do so and Polands key toughness lies in attack. In the course of qualifying they cracked in 27 aims, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the very least at the time in all ten of their qualifying matches. More importantly, they scored 10 over team winners England managed for all 토토 their multi-million lbs truly worth of strikers and only a few sides scored a lot more targets compared to the Poles during the European qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Aims Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen aims among them in the course of qualifying even though Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can also be in contention.