Outright Odds: 125/one
Group A Winners: four/one
Next a disastrous 2002 Planet Cup marketing campaign through which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective clients only for them for being beaten two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland are going to be eager to recreate their former Entire world Cup glories.
Below mentor Pawel Janas, Poland produced limited operate in their qualifying team, savoring house and away victories versus Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two narrow 2-one defeats to England prevented a clean up sweep but 8 wins outside of ten matches was greater than plenty of to cement their put while in the finals.
In qualifying they proved their power to conquer common teams convincingly and they're going to have to repeat this over the grand stage if they are to repeat their wonderful strategies of 1974 and 1982 wherein they completed 꽁머니 3rd. Even so, Additionally they really need to verify they have got what it will require to defeat the stronger sides since they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia had been dispatched before beating Brazil to claim third place.
They unquestionably possess the firepower to do so and Polands most important power lies in attack. In the course of qualifying they cracked in 27 aims, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored a minimum of once in all ten of their qualifying matches. Far more importantly, they scored ten a lot more than group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs well worth of strikers and only 3 sides scored extra ambitions in comparison to the Poles in the course of the European qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Plans Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 objectives between them for the duration of qualifying whilst Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is usually in competition.