Outright Odds: a hundred twenty five/one
Group A Winners: four/one
Adhering to a disastrous 2002 World Cup campaign by which mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective buyers only for them to generally be crushed two-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland are going to be eager to recreate their former Planet Cup glories.
Underneath coach Pawel Janas, Poland produced short work in their qualifying team, having fun with house and absent victories in opposition to Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two narrow two-1 defeats to England prevented a clean sweep but 8 wins outside of 꽁머니 ten matches was over enough to cement their area during the finals.
In qualifying they proved their power to defeat average groups convincingly and they'll really need to repeat this about the grand stage if they are to repeat their wonderful campaigns of 1974 and 1982 by which they completed 3rd. Nonetheless, In addition they must confirm they have what it's going to take to defeat the more powerful sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia had been dispatched before beating Brazil to claim 3rd spot.
They unquestionably contain the firepower to take action and Polands primary strength lies in attack. In the course of qualifying they cracked in 27 targets, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the least when in all ten in their qualifying matches. Far more importantly, they scored 10 more than team winners England managed for all their multi-million kilos value of strikers and only 3 sides scored far more objectives compared to Poles through the ecu qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Targets Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 aims concerning them in the course of qualifying whilst Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can also be in contention.