Outright Odds: 125/1
Group A Winners: 4/1
Following a disastrous 2002 Planet Cup marketing campaign where coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective clients just for them for being overwhelmed two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland might be eager to recreate their former Entire world Cup glories.
Less than coach Pawel Janas, Poland made small get the job done in their qualifying team, enjoying house and absent victories towards Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two narrow 2-one defeats to England prevented a clear sweep but 8 wins outside of ten matches was much more than more than enough to cement their place inside the finals.
In qualifying they proved their ability to beat normal groups convincingly and they're going to should repeat this on the grand stage if they are to repeat their superb campaigns of 1974 and 1982 by which they finished third. Even so, they also ought to show they've got what it requires to beat the much better sides since they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia 꽁머니 have been dispatched before beating Brazil to claim third spot.
They unquestionably contain the firepower to do so and Polands major toughness lies in assault. Through qualifying they cracked in 27 ambitions, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at least at the time in all 10 of their qualifying matches. A lot more importantly, they scored 10 over team winners England managed for all their multi-million pounds value of strikers and only 3 sides scored extra targets than the Poles for the duration of the eu qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Targets Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 targets among them all through qualifying although Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is likewise in competition.
