Outright Odds: a hundred twenty five/one
Group A Winners: four/one
Adhering to a disastrous 2002 Environment Cup campaign wherein coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective clients just for them to become overwhelmed 2-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland will probably be keen to recreate their previous World Cup glories.
Below mentor Pawel Janas, Poland produced shorter perform of their qualifying group, making the most of property and absent victories from Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern 토토 Eire and Wales. Two narrow 2-one defeats to England prevented a clear sweep but 8 wins away from 10 matches was a lot more than ample to cement their put from the finals.
In qualifying they proved their power to beat typical groups convincingly and they'll have to repeat this to the grand stage If they're to repeat their superb campaigns of 1974 and 1982 wherein they concluded 3rd. Nevertheless, Additionally they ought to show they've what it will require to beat the more robust sides since they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia have been dispatched prior to beating Brazil to assert 3rd location.
They surely have the firepower to do so and Polands major power lies in attack. Throughout qualifying they cracked in 27 aims, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the least at the time in all 10 in their qualifying matches. A lot more importantly, they scored 10 more than group winners England managed for all their multi-million pounds worthy of of strikers and only a few sides scored far more objectives compared to Poles in the course of the European qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Targets Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 aims among them in the course of qualifying although Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is additionally in competition.