Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/one
Team A Winners: 4/one
Next a disastrous 2002 Environment Cup campaign wherein coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective customers just for them being crushed two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland will probably be keen to recreate their former Environment Cup glories.
Underneath mentor Pawel Janas, Poland manufactured small work in their qualifying team, enjoying household and absent victories against Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two narrow 2-1 defeats to England prevented a clean sweep but eight wins from ten matches was greater than plenty of to cement their put from the finals.
In qualifying they proved their ability to defeat average groups convincingly and they're going to need to repeat this around the grand phase Should they be to repeat their glorious strategies of 1974 and 1982 where they completed 3rd. Having said that, they also need to show they have got what it requires to beat the more powerful sides because they did in 1974, when http://edition.cnn.com/search/?text=해외스포츠중계 Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia have been dispatched just before beating Brazil to claim 3rd 해외스포츠중계 area.
They unquestionably possess the firepower to take action and Polands main energy lies in attack. For the duration of qualifying they cracked in 27 goals, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored no less than the moment in all 10 in their qualifying matches. Extra importantly, they scored 10 a lot more than team winners England managed for all their multi-million kilos truly worth of strikers and only three sides scored a lot more objectives in comparison to the Poles all through the European qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Targets Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 ambitions among them through qualifying whilst Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can be in rivalry.
Poland also are a side that isn't short of expertise. The anticipated setting up line-up has a median age of more than 30 when Jacek Krzynowek, Jamil Kosowski and Radolsaw Kaluzny have all played inside the German Bundesliga. Four decades ago the workforce struggled to cope Along with the climate in Korea and Japan but will likely have no these kinds of challenges this time when making the brief excursion over the border into Germany.
Their only serious weakness is in the back wherever they may have created a behavior of conceding gentle plans which can not go unpunished after they deal with a crew in scientific mood.
Advised Bet:
Poland have acquired a favourable draw in which they should arguably defeat equally Ecuador and Costa Rica Together with the regional derby fixture in opposition to Germany sandwiched in between. The dismal failure of four a long time in the past usually means the Poles can't be backed confidently to get Group A, although They are really robust more than enough to qualify from it.
Poland to qualify from Group A @ 8/15
Poland to defeat Costa Rica @ 4/5