Outright Odds: a hundred twenty five/one
Group A Winners: four/one
Adhering to a disastrous 2002 Entire world Cup campaign in which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides potential clients only for them to be overwhelmed 2-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland are going to be keen to recreate their former Earth Cup glories.
Less than coach Pawel Janas, Poland produced short do the job in their qualifying team, having fun with residence and away victories in opposition to Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slim two-one defeats to England prevented a clean up sweep but 8 wins from ten matches was a lot more than adequate to cement their area during the finals.
In qualifying they proved their ability to beat common teams convincingly and they're going to should repeat this within the grand stage If they're to repeat their superb strategies of 1974 and 1982 through which they concluded third. Having said that, they also have to confirm they have got what it requires to defeat the much better sides because they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia have been dispatched just before beating Brazil to claim third position.
They surely possess the firepower to take action and Polands primary strength lies in attack. Throughout qualifying they cracked in 27 goals, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored a 꽁머니 minimum of once in all 10 of their qualifying matches. A lot more importantly, they scored 10 more than team winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs . worthy of of strikers and only 3 sides scored far more objectives compared to Poles during the ecu qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Objectives Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 plans concerning them through qualifying whilst Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can be in competition.