Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/one
Group http://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=꽁머니 A Winners: 4/one
Following a disastrous 2002 Environment Cup marketing campaign in which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective clients just for them to be overwhelmed 2-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland is going to be keen to recreate their previous Globe Cup glories.
Underneath mentor Pawel Janas, Poland made small work of their qualifying group, savoring dwelling and away victories towards Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two narrow 2-1 defeats to England prevented a cleanse sweep but eight wins out of 꽁머니 ten matches was in excess of more than enough to cement their area while in the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capacity to conquer normal teams convincingly and they're going to must repeat this over the grand phase if they are to repeat their wonderful strategies of 1974 and 1982 where they concluded 3rd. Nonetheless, they also must prove they have what it requires to conquer the much better sides because they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia ended up dispatched before beating Brazil to say 3rd position.
They surely possess the firepower to take action and Polands principal strength lies in attack. In the course of qualifying they cracked in 27 goals, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the least when in all 10 of their qualifying matches. Additional importantly, they scored 10 in excess of group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs worthy of of strikers and only three sides scored extra plans compared to Poles through the ecu qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Plans Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 goals among them in the course of qualifying though Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is also in contention.