Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/one
Group A 꽁머니 Winners: four/1
Adhering to a disastrous 2002 Globe Cup marketing campaign during which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective clients only for them for being overwhelmed 2-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland will probably be eager to recreate their former World Cup glories.
Less than mentor Pawel Janas, Poland made short function of their qualifying group, savoring house and away victories versus Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slim 2-one defeats to England prevented a clean sweep but eight wins from ten matches was much more than enough to cement their location within the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capability to defeat average groups convincingly and they will ought to repeat this on the grand stage When they are to repeat their superb campaigns of 1974 and 1982 through which they concluded 3rd. Having said that, Additionally they need to show they've got what it will require to beat the more powerful sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia ended up dispatched right before beating Brazil to claim third location.
They unquestionably have the firepower to do so and Polands most important energy lies in attack. For the duration of qualifying they cracked in 27 targets, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored no less than at the time in all 10 of their qualifying matches. Extra importantly, they scored 10 much more than group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs . value of strikers and only 3 sides scored more aims as opposed to Poles through the eu qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Plans Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 objectives involving them during qualifying although Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is likewise in contention.