Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/1
Team A Winners: 4/one
Adhering to a disastrous 2002 Earth Cup marketing campaign during which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective clients just for them to generally be beaten 2-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland will be eager to recreate their previous Environment Cup glories.
Beneath coach Pawel Janas, Poland manufactured small work in their qualifying team, making the most of house and absent victories in opposition to Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two narrow 2-one defeats to England prevented a cleanse 꽁머니 sweep but eight wins out of 10 matches was over adequate to cement their place inside the finals.
In qualifying they proved their ability to beat ordinary teams convincingly and they're going to need to repeat this about the grand stage if they are to repeat their glorious strategies of 1974 and 1982 during which they finished 3rd. Having said that, they also should confirm they've what it will require to defeat the much better sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia ended up dispatched in advance of beating Brazil to say 3rd place.
They unquestionably provide the firepower to do so and Polands principal power lies in assault. For the duration of qualifying they cracked in 27 ambitions, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the very least as soon as in all 10 in their qualifying matches. Far more importantly, they scored 10 over group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs . well worth of strikers and only three sides scored far more goals compared to Poles all through the European qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Aims Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen objectives amongst them during qualifying whilst Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can be in competition.