Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/1
Group A Winners: 4/one
Next a disastrous 2002 Earth Cup marketing campaign in which mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides potential clients just for them to be crushed two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland are going to be keen to recreate their previous Environment Cup glories.
Beneath coach Pawel Janas, Poland built brief get the job done of their qualifying team, experiencing 꽁머니 dwelling and absent victories towards Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slim two-1 defeats to England prevented a thoroughly clean sweep but 8 wins from ten matches was much more than sufficient to cement their place during the finals.
In qualifying they proved their power to beat ordinary groups convincingly and they will really need to repeat this on the grand stage When they are to repeat their glorious campaigns of 1974 and 1982 by which they concluded third. Nevertheless, In addition they must demonstrate they've what it's going to take to beat the more robust sides because they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia had been dispatched prior to beating Brazil to claim 3rd place.
They undoubtedly hold the firepower to take action and Polands major power lies in attack. During qualifying they cracked in 27 plans, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the very least as soon as in all 10 in their qualifying matches. Additional importantly, they scored ten in excess of team winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs . really worth of strikers and only three sides scored far more aims compared to the Poles for the duration of the European qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Aims Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen ambitions amongst them during qualifying although Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is usually in competition.