Outright Odds: a hundred twenty five/1
Group A Winners: four/one
Pursuing a disastrous 2002 World Cup marketing campaign through which mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective buyers only for them to generally be overwhelmed two-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland will likely be keen to recreate their former Entire world Cup glories.
Underneath mentor Pawel 꽁머니 Janas, Poland produced small function of their qualifying team, enjoying dwelling and away victories in opposition to Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slim two-one defeats to England prevented a thoroughly clean sweep but 8 wins outside of 10 matches was a lot more than enough to cement their area from the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capacity to conquer average groups convincingly and they're going to ought to repeat this about the grand phase if they are to repeat their superb strategies of 1974 and 1982 where they finished third. On the other hand, Additionally they have to verify they have what it's going to take to beat the more powerful sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia ended up dispatched before beating Brazil to claim third location.
They undoubtedly have the firepower to take action and Polands major toughness lies in attack. For the duration of qualifying they cracked in 27 aims, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the least once in all 10 of their qualifying matches. Additional importantly, they scored 10 much more than group winners England managed for all their multi-million pounds well worth of strikers and only three sides scored more objectives than the Poles for the duration of the European qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Aims Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen targets involving them in the course of qualifying whilst Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can also be in contention.