Outright Odds: 125/one
Group A Winners: 4/one
Following a disastrous 2002 Entire world Cup campaign in which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective customers only for them being beaten two-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland is going to be eager to recreate their previous Earth Cup glories.
Underneath mentor Pawel Janas, Poland designed small do the job in their qualifying group, making the most of house and absent victories versus Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two slender two-one defeats to England prevented a cleanse sweep but 8 wins outside of ten matches was more than more than enough to cement their location from the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capacity to beat typical teams convincingly and they will need to repeat this over the grand phase If they're to repeat their glorious campaigns of 1974 and 1982 by which they completed third. Even so, they also need to establish they have what it takes to defeat the more robust sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia have been dispatched right before beating Brazil to say 3rd position.
They absolutely possess the firepower to take action and Polands key power lies in assault. During qualifying they cracked in 27 aims, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the very least as soon as in all 10 of their qualifying matches. Much more importantly, they scored 10 in excess of group winners England managed for all their multi-million kilos really worth of strikers and only 3 sides scored extra aims as opposed to Poles throughout the 꽁머니 ecu qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Targets Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen aims among them through qualifying whilst Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can also be in rivalry.