Outright Odds: 125/one
Group A Winners: 4/one
Pursuing a disastrous 2002 Globe Cup campaign in which mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospects only for them to get overwhelmed two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland will likely be keen to recreate their former Globe Cup glories.
Under mentor Pawel Janas, Poland made quick get the job done of their qualifying team, taking pleasure in house and absent victories versus Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slender two-1 defeats to England prevented a clean up sweep but 8 wins from 10 matches was much more than sufficient to cement their place inside the finals.
In qualifying they proved their power to defeat ordinary teams convincingly and they're going to need to repeat this around the grand phase Should they be to repeat their superb strategies of 1974 and 1982 through which they completed 3rd. Having said that, Additionally they ought to establish they may have what it's going to take to beat the stronger sides because they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia have been dispatched ahead of beating Brazil to assert 3rd position.
They unquestionably provide the firepower to do so and Polands most important toughness lies in assault. Throughout qualifying they cracked in 27 goals, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the least once in all 10 of their qualifying matches. Extra importantly, they scored ten in excess of group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs worthy of of strikers and only 3 sides scored more goals as opposed to Poles throughout the European qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Goals Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen targets concerning them all through qualifying whilst Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak 꽁머니 is additionally in rivalry.