Outright Odds: a hundred twenty five/one
Group A Winners: four/1
Pursuing a disastrous 2002 Earth Cup campaign by which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides potential clients just for them to be beaten two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland will be eager to recreate their previous World Cup glories.
Underneath coach Pawel Janas, Poland produced shorter function of their qualifying group, taking pleasure in dwelling and absent victories versus Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two narrow two-1 defeats to England prevented a clean sweep but 8 wins from ten matches was in excess of enough to cement their area from the finals.
In qualifying they proved their ability to beat normal teams convincingly and they'll should repeat this to the grand stage If they're to repeat their superb strategies of 1974 and 1982 during which they concluded third. Nevertheless, Additionally they should demonstrate they've got what it will take to conquer the more powerful sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia ended up dispatched prior to beating Brazil to assert 3rd put.
They unquestionably have the firepower to do so and Polands most important strength lies in attack. During qualifying they cracked in 27 aims, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored not less than the moment in all ten of their qualifying matches. Far more importantly, they scored 10 a lot more than group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs value of strikers and only a few sides scored far more plans than the Poles throughout the ecu qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Goals Hunter and 토토 Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 plans between them for the duration of qualifying though Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is usually in contention.