Outright Odds: 125/one
Group A Winners: four/1
Next a disastrous 2002 Earth Cup campaign through which mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective customers just for them for being crushed two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland are going to be eager to recreate their former World Cup glories.
Under coach Pawel Janas, Poland made brief perform of their qualifying group, enjoying home and away victories towards Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two slim two-1 defeats to England prevented a cleanse sweep but eight wins from ten matches was more than 꽁머니 more than enough to cement their position within the finals.
In qualifying they proved their ability to defeat ordinary teams convincingly and they will need to repeat this about the grand stage If they're to repeat their wonderful campaigns of 1974 and 1982 in which they finished 3rd. Having said that, Additionally they have to demonstrate they have got what it's going to take to beat the more robust sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia have been dispatched ahead of beating Brazil to claim 3rd location.
They surely contain the firepower to do so and Polands main power lies in assault. Through qualifying they cracked in 27 aims, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored not less than as soon as in all ten in their qualifying matches. Extra importantly, they scored ten in excess of group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs . really worth of strikers and only three sides scored a lot more plans in comparison to the Poles for the duration of the European qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Goals Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 targets amongst them all through qualifying although Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is additionally in rivalry.