Outright Odds: a hundred twenty five/1
Group A Winners: 4/1
Adhering to a disastrous 2002 Planet Cup campaign through which mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides potential clients just for them to become beaten two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland is going to be keen to recreate their former Globe Cup glories.
Underneath coach Pawel Janas, Poland created short operate of their qualifying team, taking pleasure in house and away victories versus Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two narrow two-one defeats to England prevented a clean up sweep but eight wins out of 10 matches was over plenty of to cement their spot inside the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capacity to defeat regular teams convincingly and they're going to need to repeat this on the grand stage if they are to repeat their superb campaigns of 1974 and 1982 where they completed 3rd. Nonetheless, In addition they need to demonstrate they have what it will take to beat the stronger sides since they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia had been dispatched just before beating Brazil to assert third place.
They undoubtedly possess the firepower to do so and Polands major strength lies in assault. Through qualifying they cracked in 27 aims, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored a minimum of as soon as in all 10 of their qualifying matches. Much more importantly, they scored ten much more than group winners England managed for all their multi-million pounds truly worth of strikers and only three sides scored extra targets when compared to the Poles all through the eu qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Objectives Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired 해외스포츠중계 in fourteen objectives amongst them all through qualifying while Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is usually in competition.
Poland also are a facet that's not in need of working experience. The expected starting off line-up has a mean age of around 30 though Jacek Krzynowek, Jamil Kosowski and Radolsaw Kaluzny have all played during the German Bundesliga. Four decades ago the crew struggled to manage While using the climate in Korea and Japan but will have no this sort of issues this time when making the short journey over the border into Germany.
Their only real weak spot is with the back again exactly where they have formulated a habit of conceding gentle objectives which can not go http://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=해외스포츠중계 unpunished every time they face a team in medical temper.
Encouraged Wager:
Poland have received a favourable draw during which they ought to arguably conquer both Ecuador and Costa Rica with the local derby fixture from Germany sandwiched between. The dismal failure of four several years back implies the Poles can't be backed confidently to gain Team A, Whilst They may be solid plenty of to qualify from it.
Poland to qualify from Group A @ 8/fifteen
Poland to conquer Costa Rica @ four/five
