Outright Odds: 125/1
Group A Winners: four/1
Subsequent a disastrous 2002 Entire world Cup campaign where coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides potential customers just for them being beaten 2-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland will be eager to recreate their previous Environment Cup glories.
Underneath coach Pawel Janas, Poland designed short do the job of their qualifying team, taking pleasure in property and absent victories from Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two slender two-1 defeats to England prevented a clear sweep but 8 wins from 10 matches was much more than sufficient to cement their spot in the finals.
In qualifying they proved their power to beat ordinary teams convincingly and they're going to should repeat this on the grand stage Should they be to repeat their glorious strategies of 1974 and 1982 where they completed third. However, In addition they need to demonstrate they've what it will require to beat the more powerful sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and 꽁머니 Yugoslavia were being dispatched prior to beating Brazil to claim 3rd position.
They absolutely hold the firepower to do so and Polands major strength lies in attack. All through qualifying they cracked in 27 plans, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored not less than as soon as in all 10 of their qualifying matches. Much more importantly, they scored ten much more than team winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs . well worth of strikers and only three sides scored far more targets when compared to the Poles in the course of the ecu qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Plans Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen goals between them through qualifying whilst Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is additionally in rivalry.