Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/1
Group A Winners: 4/1
Adhering to a disastrous 2002 World Cup campaign wherein mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides potential clients just for them to be overwhelmed two-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland will likely be eager to recreate their former Environment Cup glories.
Beneath mentor Pawel Janas, Poland built small function in their qualifying group, making the most of house and absent 토토 victories in opposition to Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slender 2-one defeats to England prevented a cleanse sweep but 8 wins away from ten matches was much more than plenty of to cement their put while in the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capacity to conquer typical teams convincingly and they will need to repeat this on the grand phase If they're to repeat their wonderful campaigns of 1974 and 1982 during which they completed third. Nonetheless, In addition they must demonstrate they've got what it takes to beat the stronger sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia ended up dispatched in advance of beating Brazil to claim third spot.
They unquestionably contain the firepower to do so and Polands main energy lies in attack. In the course of qualifying they cracked in 27 plans, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored no less than at the time in all 10 of their qualifying matches. Additional importantly, they scored 10 more than team winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs . really worth of strikers and only 3 sides scored far more plans than the Poles in the course of the European qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Targets Hunter and Celtic forward Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen targets among them all through qualifying though Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak can be in contention.