Outright Odds: 125/1
Group A Winners: four/one
Pursuing a disastrous 2002 Globe Cup marketing campaign wherein mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides potential customers only for them to generally be beaten two-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland will likely be keen to recreate their former Earth Cup glories.
Underneath coach Pawel Janas, Poland designed brief do the job in their qualifying team, savoring residence and away victories in opposition to Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slender 2-one defeats to England prevented a clean up sweep but eight wins outside of 10 matches was a lot more than more than enough to cement their position within the finals.
In qualifying they proved their ability to beat normal groups convincingly and they'll have to repeat this within the grand phase if they are to repeat their wonderful campaigns of 1974 and 1982 in which they concluded third. Nevertheless, they also need to show they've got what it will take to defeat the stronger sides because they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia have been dispatched just before beating Brazil to claim 3rd place.
They surely provide the firepower to take action and Polands key strength lies in attack. For the duration of qualifying they cracked in 27 plans, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at least at the time in all ten of their qualifying matches. Far more importantly, they scored 10 greater than group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs really worth of strikers and only a few sides scored more aims than the Poles throughout the eu qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed 토토 The Ambitions Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen goals in between them throughout qualifying whilst Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can also be in contention.
