Outright Odds: 125/1
Group A Winners: 4/1
Adhering to a disastrous 2002 Environment Cup marketing campaign in which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective customers just for them to become overwhelmed two-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland is going to be eager to recreate their previous World Cup glories.
Below coach Pawel Janas, Poland manufactured small operate of their qualifying team, having fun with residence and absent victories towards Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two narrow two-1 defeats to England prevented a thoroughly clean sweep but 8 wins outside of 10 matches was over enough to cement their place in the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capacity to conquer average groups convincingly and they'll need to repeat this within the grand stage If they're to repeat their glorious campaigns of 1974 and 1982 wherein they concluded 3rd. Nevertheless, Additionally they really need to verify they may have what it will take 꽁머니 to beat the stronger sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia have been dispatched ahead of beating Brazil to assert third location.
They surely possess the firepower to do so and Polands main strength lies in attack. Through qualifying they cracked in 27 goals, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the least as soon as in all ten in their qualifying matches. A lot more importantly, they scored ten in excess of group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs . really worth of strikers and only a few sides scored far more objectives as opposed to Poles for the duration of the European qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Aims Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 ambitions concerning them for the duration of qualifying when Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is also in rivalry.