Outright Odds: 125/one
Group A Winners: 4/one
Adhering to a disastrous 2002 Planet Cup campaign by which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective buyers just for them to be crushed two-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland is going to be keen to recreate their previous Earth Cup glories.
Underneath mentor Pawel Janas, Poland created limited do the job in their qualifying group, having fun with residence and absent victories versus Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slim two-one defeats to England prevented a clean up sweep but eight wins outside of 10 matches was greater than adequate to cement their location in the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capacity to beat average teams convincingly and they will should repeat this on the grand stage If they're to repeat their wonderful campaigns of 1974 and 1982 in which they completed third. Even so, they also need to demonstrate they've got what it takes to beat the more robust sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia had been dispatched before beating Brazil to assert 토토 3rd put.
They absolutely have the firepower to do so and Polands principal power lies in assault. Through qualifying they cracked in 27 ambitions, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored a minimum of once in all 10 of their qualifying matches. Additional importantly, they scored 10 greater than group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs . worth of strikers and only 3 sides scored additional ambitions than the Poles all through the European qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Aims Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen aims between them during qualifying though Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is also in competition.