Poland
The World Cup 2018 is right around the corner, but if you’re a keen reader of this blog, you’ll almost definitely already know that! Over the past month, we’ve been putting together our Ultimate World Cup guide, which includes facts about every single thing you need to know ahead of the competition.
Why do you need to know so much? To make smart wagers of course! Whilst the World Cup is the perfect time to enjoy watching high-quality football and root for your country, it’s also the perfect time to place some potentially very lucrative sports bets.
In fact, the World Cup 2018 will bring with it hundreds of new betting opportunities and markets, so getting clued up before it all kicks off is imperative.
Poland squad & Poland starting eleven
One of the most popular World Cup bets to make is to back a team to win the competition outright, or to back a team to reach a certain stage. There are, however, thirty-two different teams travelling to Russia, and so knowing who to put your money on can seem a little challenging.
Luckily for you, we’ve collated all the statistics and odds on every competing country, so that you can find out if your chosen team have a good chance of going all the way.
In this article, we’re taking a closer look at the Poland international team and attempting to predict how they will get on in the World Cup 2018. To do this, we’ve looked at the Poland to win World Cup 2018 odds, their international record, their current form and their chances of progressing out of the group stages.
All of this will help you decide if they’re the team you want to throw your weight, and money, behind this summer, so read on to find out more.
Poland World Cup 2018: Factsheet
Before you go ahead and place a wager on the odds on Poland winning World Cup 2018, it’s a good idea to assess how Poland have been performing recently, which star players they’re taking to Russia and how they’ve managed to reach this stage of the competition. Fortunately, this can all be found at a glance in the handy factsheet we’ve created below.
Poland | |
Current Manager | Adam Nawalka |
Preliminary World Cup 2018 Squad | Bartosz Bialkowski, Lukasz Fabianski, Lukasz Skorupski, Wojciech Szczesny, Jan Bednarek, Bartosz Bereszynski, Thiago Cionek, Kamil Glik, Artur Jedrzejczyk, Marcin Kaminski, Tomasz Kedziora, Michal Pazdan, Lukasz Piszczek; Jakub Blaszczykowski, Pawel Dawidowicz, Przemyslaw Frankowski, Jacek Goralski, Maciej Rybus, Sebastian Szymanski, Piotr Zielinski, Szymon Zurkowski; Dawid Kownacki, Robert Lewandowski, Arkadiusz Milik, Krzysztof Piatek, Lukasz Teodorczyk, Kamil Wilczek. |
World Cup 2018 Group | Group H (Against Senegal, Colombia, Japan) |
No. of World Cup Appearances (not including 2018) | 7 |
No. of Previous World Cup Victories | 0 |
Stage of Elimination in World Cup 2014 | Did Not Qualify |
Percentage of Games Won in Qualifying Rounds | 80 |
Poland World Cup 2018 Odds: An Overview
As is shown in the table above, Poland will start the World Cup 2018 in Group H, which means they’ll have to play Senegal, Colombia and Japan in order to progress to the round of sixteen. Poland’s first match in the competition will take place on the 19th of June, yet there’s already plenty of different Poland World Cup 2018 odds being offered by UK bookmakers.
As we mentioned in the introduction, one of the most popular World Cup 2018 bets you can make ahead of the beginning of the competition is to back a team to victory.
You can find out how the bookies expect Poland to fare by checking out the odds for Poland to win World Cup 2018 outright, as well as the odds on Poland’s stage of elimination. By assessing these odds as well as the statistics given above, you can identify chances to beat the bookies and win big.
Betting Market | Odds Poland World Cup 2018 |
To Win World Cup 2018 | 66/1 |
To Reach the Final | 33/1 |
To Reach the Semi Finals | 16/1 |
To Reach the Quarter Finals | 9/2 |
To Reach the Round of 16 | 6/4 |
To Win Group Stage | 7/4 |
To Advance from Group | 4/7 |
To Not Advance from Group | 11/8 |
Odds on Poland to Win World Cup 2018
The betting odds Poland to win World Cup 2018 listed in the table above may seem surprising, considering that Poland have only ever reached the final stages of the World Cup seven times before, and actually failed to qualify in the 2014 competition.
However, generally speaking, Poland are one of the favourites to qualify from their group and are therefore expected to reach the round of 16 at least. This is why there is less value in these bets, yet the stakes are raised when we discuss Poland reaching the quarters, semis or even the odds on Poland winning 2018 World Cup outright.
At the moment, backing odds Poland win World Cup 2018 may seem a little risky, yet they are taking a formidable team to Russia, complete with star player Robert Lewandowski.
In their qualifying games, the team averaged nearly three goals a game which means that betting on, and even watching, Poland this World Cup could be very exciting.