Outright Odds: a hundred twenty five/1
Group A Winners: four/1
Next a disastrous 2002 World Cup campaign during which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides potential clients only for them being overwhelmed two-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland might be keen to recreate their former World Cup glories.
Less than mentor Pawel Janas, Poland built quick operate of their qualifying team, having fun with household and absent victories in opposition to Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two narrow 2-one defeats to England prevented a clean sweep but eight wins out of ten matches was much more than enough to cement their position in the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capability to conquer common groups convincingly and they're going to should repeat this around the grand phase If they're to repeat their wonderful strategies of 1974 and 1982 through which they finished third. On the other hand, they also really need to demonstrate they have what it requires to defeat the much better sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia had been dispatched just before beating Brazil to say 3rd place.
They surely hold the firepower to do so and Polands most important power lies in assault. For the duration of qualifying they cracked in 27 ambitions, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the least after in all 10 of their qualifying matches. Extra importantly, they scored 10 much more than group winners England managed for all their multi-million kilos well worth of strikers and only three sides scored additional goals when compared to the Poles in the course of the ecu qualifying campaign.
Elche 토토 striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Ambitions Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen objectives between them for the duration of qualifying though Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can also be in competition.