Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/1
Group A Winners: 4/one
Adhering to a disastrous 2002 Environment Cup campaign by which mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective buyers just for them being beaten 2-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland will probably be eager to recreate their former Globe Cup glories.
Less than coach Pawel Janas, Poland created small perform in their qualifying group, taking pleasure in dwelling and absent victories versus Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two slender 2-one defeats to England prevented a clear sweep but eight wins away from ten matches was greater than more than enough to cement their put within the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capability to conquer average teams convincingly and they'll must repeat this within the grand stage If they're to repeat their glorious strategies of 1974 and 1982 by which they completed 3rd. Nonetheless, they also need to prove they have got what it requires to defeat the stronger sides since they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia were being dispatched in advance of beating Brazil to claim 3rd put.
They undoubtedly possess the firepower to take action and Polands principal strength lies in assault. During qualifying they cracked in 27 aims, notably the 8-0 thrashing of 꽁머니 Azerbaijan and scored at the very least at the time in all ten of their qualifying matches. A lot more importantly, they scored 10 greater than group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs . well worth of strikers and only a few sides scored extra aims compared to Poles throughout the European qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Aims Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 objectives amongst them throughout qualifying even though Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can be in rivalry.