Outright Odds: a hundred twenty five/1
Group A Winners: 4/one
Subsequent a disastrous 2002 Environment Cup marketing campaign wherein mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospects just for them to be beaten two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland will probably be keen to recreate their former Entire world Cup glories.
Underneath coach Pawel Janas, Poland made limited perform of their qualifying group, having fun with house and absent victories from Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two slender 2-one defeats to England prevented a clean sweep but eight wins outside of 10 matches was in excess of ample to cement their location while in the finals.
In qualifying they proved their power to conquer average teams convincingly and they'll ought to repeat this over the grand stage if they are to repeat their superb campaigns of 1974 and 1982 where they finished third. Even so, In addition they must prove they may have what it requires to beat the stronger sides because they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia ended 꽁머니 up dispatched in advance of beating Brazil to say 3rd area.
They undoubtedly have the firepower to take action and Polands main power lies in assault. Throughout qualifying they cracked in 27 aims, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored not less than the moment in all 10 of their qualifying matches. Far more importantly, they scored ten a lot more than team winners England managed for all their multi-million kilos value of strikers and only a few sides scored a lot more plans as opposed to Poles for the duration of the eu qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Targets Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 objectives among them throughout qualifying while Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can also be in rivalry.