Outright Odds: a hundred twenty five/1
Group A Winners: four/one
Next a disastrous 2002 World Cup campaign wherein coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospects just for them to become overwhelmed 2-0 by 꽁머니 South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland might be eager to recreate their former Entire world Cup glories.
Underneath coach Pawel Janas, Poland produced limited operate in their qualifying team, making the most of home and away victories from Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slender two-one defeats to England prevented a thoroughly clean sweep but eight wins away from 10 matches was over sufficient to cement their position from the finals.
In qualifying they proved their ability to defeat typical groups convincingly and they're going to really need to repeat this within the grand stage If they're to repeat their glorious campaigns of 1974 and 1982 wherein they concluded third. On the other hand, they also need to show they've got what it's going to take to defeat the more powerful sides because they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia had been dispatched prior to beating Brazil to claim third place.
They definitely hold the firepower to take action and Polands primary toughness lies in attack. All through qualifying they cracked in 27 objectives, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored not less than the moment in all ten in their qualifying matches. More importantly, they scored 10 over team winners England managed for all their multi-million pounds truly worth of strikers and only three sides scored much more objectives compared to the Poles during the ecu qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Objectives Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen goals amongst them through qualifying when Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is additionally in contention.