Outright Odds: 125/1
Team A Winners: four/1
Following a disastrous 2002 Globe Cup campaign through which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective customers only for them to get overwhelmed 2-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland is going to be keen to recreate their former Entire world Cup glories.
Under coach Pawel Janas, Poland produced brief get the job done of their qualifying group, savoring property and absent victories towards Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two slender 2-1 defeats to England prevented a thoroughly clean sweep but eight wins out of 10 matches was much more than ample to cement their put while in the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capacity to conquer regular groups convincingly and they'll need to repeat this within the grand phase If they're to repeat their glorious campaigns of 1974 and 1982 wherein they concluded third. Nonetheless, In addition they really need to establish they've got what it will require to conquer the much better sides since they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia had been dispatched ahead of beating Brazil to assert 3rd location.
They surely contain the firepower to do so and Polands most important strength 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 at the time in all ten of their qualifying matches. Additional importantly, they scored ten greater than team winners England managed for all their multi-million pounds really worth of strikers and only three sides scored more goals as opposed to Poles throughout the European qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Ambitions Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen objectives in between them for the duration of qualifying while Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can also be in contention.
Poland may also be a facet that is not wanting encounter. The anticipated setting up line-up has a mean age of above thirty though Jacek Krzynowek, Jamil Kosowski and Radolsaw Kaluzny have all performed in the German Bundesliga. 4 here several years back the group struggled to cope Along with the climate in Korea and Japan but can have no this sort of issues this time when earning the http://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=온라인카지노 shorter vacation about the border into Germany.
Their only true weak spot is in the back in which they may have produced a routine of conceding delicate objectives which can not go unpunished every time they deal with a team in medical mood.
Advised Bet:
Poland have gained a favourable draw wherein they should arguably defeat both equally Ecuador and Costa Rica with the neighborhood derby fixture versus Germany sandwiched between. The dismal failure of four several years in the past suggests the Poles can't be backed confidently to earn Group A, Whilst They're sturdy adequate to qualify from it.
Poland to qualify from Team A @ eight/15
Poland to beat Costa Rica @ four/five