Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/1
Group A Winners: four/1
Pursuing a disastrous 2002 Environment Cup campaign during which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective customers only for them for being crushed two-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland is going to be eager to recreate their previous Globe Cup glories.
Under mentor Pawel Janas, Poland made brief operate of their qualifying team, enjoying home and away victories in opposition to Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two narrow 2-1 defeats to England prevented a clean sweep but 8 wins away from ten matches was a lot more than more than enough to cement their area while in the finals.
In qualifying they proved their power to beat typical teams convincingly and they're going to have to repeat this about the grand stage If they're to repeat their superb campaigns of 1974 and 꽁머니 1982 wherein they finished third. Having said that, they also have to verify they have got what it requires to beat the more powerful sides because they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia were being dispatched before beating Brazil to claim 3rd area.
They unquestionably contain the firepower to do so and Polands principal energy lies in attack. During qualifying they cracked in 27 goals, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored not less than at the time in all ten of their qualifying matches. Much more importantly, they scored 10 much more than team winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs really worth of strikers and only a few sides scored additional targets compared to Poles through the European qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Targets Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen objectives between them for the duration of qualifying even though Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is also in contention.
