Outright Odds: 125/one
Group A Winners: four/one
Pursuing a disastrous 2002 Entire world Cup campaign where coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective clients only for them to generally be overwhelmed 2-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland 꽁머니 is going to be eager to recreate their former Environment Cup glories.
Under mentor Pawel Janas, Poland designed brief function in their qualifying team, making the most of household and away victories towards Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two slim two-one defeats to England prevented a cleanse sweep but 8 wins from ten matches was much more than enough to cement their place in the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capacity to conquer regular groups convincingly and they'll must repeat this within the grand phase if they are to repeat their glorious strategies of 1974 and 1982 wherein they completed third. However, Additionally they should verify they may have what it will take to defeat the more robust sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia were being dispatched just before beating Brazil to assert third place.
They certainly have the firepower to do so and Polands most important strength lies in assault. During qualifying they cracked in 27 targets, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored a minimum of when in all 10 of their qualifying matches. Far more importantly, they scored 10 greater than team winners England managed for all their multi-million kilos value of strikers and only 3 sides scored far more plans compared to the Poles all through the European qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Targets Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 aims between them through qualifying while Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can also be in competition.