Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/one
Group A Winners: 4/1
Following a disastrous 2002 Globe Cup campaign in which 꽁머니 mentor http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection®ion=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=Homepage#/꽁머니 Jerzy Engel talked up his sides potential customers only for them to get crushed two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland will likely be keen to recreate their former Entire world Cup glories.
Less than coach Pawel Janas, Poland designed quick do the job in their qualifying group, savoring household and away victories versus Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two narrow 2-1 defeats to England prevented a clear sweep but 8 wins out of 10 matches was more than adequate to cement their put within the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capability to conquer ordinary teams convincingly and they'll should repeat this to the grand phase if they are to repeat their glorious strategies of 1974 and 1982 wherein they finished third. On the other hand, they also should establish they've got what it requires to conquer the stronger sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia had been dispatched just before beating Brazil to claim 3rd position.
They definitely have the firepower to do so and Polands main strength lies in attack. Throughout qualifying they cracked in 27 targets, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the least at the time in all ten of their qualifying matches. A lot more importantly, they scored ten greater than group winners England managed for all their multi-million pounds well worth of strikers and only 3 sides scored more plans as opposed to Poles in the course of the ecu qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Objectives Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen aims amongst them for the duration of qualifying when Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is usually in competition.
