Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/one
Group A Winners: four/1
Subsequent a disastrous 2002 Planet Cup campaign by which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides potential customers only for them for being beaten 2-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland is going to be eager 토토 to recreate their former Globe Cup glories.
Beneath mentor Pawel Janas, Poland manufactured shorter function in their qualifying team, making the most of dwelling and away victories towards Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two narrow two-one defeats to England prevented a clean up sweep but 8 wins away from 10 matches was greater than adequate to cement their area during the finals.
In qualifying they proved their power to conquer normal teams convincingly and they will really need to repeat this within the grand phase if they are to repeat their glorious campaigns of 1974 and 1982 during which they completed third. Nevertheless, Additionally they should demonstrate they may have what it requires to conquer the more powerful sides because they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia had been dispatched right before beating Brazil to claim third position.
They certainly hold the firepower to do so and Polands most important strength lies in assault. For the duration of qualifying they cracked in 27 goals, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at least the moment in all ten in their qualifying matches. Additional importantly, they scored 10 in excess of team winners England managed for all their multi-million pounds well worth of strikers and only a few sides scored far more goals compared to the Poles through the eu qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Goals Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 targets amongst them all through qualifying even though Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can be in competition.