Outright Odds: a hundred twenty five/one
Group A Winners: 4/one
Next a disastrous 2002 World Cup marketing campaign during which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective buyers just for them to generally be beaten two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland is going to be eager to recreate their former Entire world Cup glories.
Beneath mentor Pawel Janas, Poland manufactured quick function of their qualifying group, experiencing house and away victories in opposition to Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slim two-one 토토 defeats to England prevented a clean sweep but 8 wins from 10 matches was over adequate to cement their area from the finals.
In qualifying they proved their ability to defeat normal groups convincingly and they will have to repeat this around the grand phase if they are to repeat their wonderful campaigns of 1974 and 1982 during which they finished third. On the other hand, In addition they should establish they have got what it requires to beat the much better sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia have been dispatched prior to beating Brazil to claim 3rd place.
They definitely possess the firepower to do so and Polands main toughness lies in assault. In the course of qualifying they cracked in 27 goals, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at least once in all 10 of their qualifying matches. Far more importantly, they scored 10 greater than group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs worthy of of strikers and only 3 sides scored extra ambitions as opposed to Poles for the duration of the eu qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Aims Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 objectives amongst them all through qualifying even though Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is also in competition.