Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/one
Group A Winners: four/one
Adhering to a disastrous 2002 Earth Cup marketing campaign by which 꽁머니 mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides potential clients just for them to become overwhelmed two-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland will likely be keen to recreate their former World Cup glories.
Below coach Pawel Janas, Poland manufactured shorter get the job done in their qualifying team, taking pleasure in property and away victories versus Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two narrow 2-1 defeats to England prevented a thoroughly clean sweep but eight wins outside of 10 matches was over adequate to cement their put within the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capability to beat regular groups convincingly and they will must repeat this to the grand stage if they are to repeat their glorious campaigns of 1974 and 1982 in which they finished third. Nonetheless, they also should verify they've got what it will take to beat the much better sides because they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia have been dispatched before beating Brazil to say third location.
They absolutely have the firepower to take action and Polands major energy lies in attack. During qualifying they cracked in 27 aims, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored not less than when in all ten in their qualifying matches. Additional importantly, they scored ten much more than group winners England managed for all their multi-million pounds worth of strikers and only three sides scored additional ambitions compared to Poles for the duration of the ecu qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Objectives Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen plans involving them through qualifying while Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can be in rivalry.