Outright Odds: a hundred twenty five/1
Group A Winners: four/1
Next a disastrous 2002 Earth Cup marketing campaign during which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospects only for them to become crushed 2-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland will be keen to recreate their former World Cup glories.
Less than coach Pawel Janas, Poland designed shorter do the job in their qualifying group, enjoying property and absent victories versus Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two slim two-one defeats to England prevented a cleanse sweep but eight wins away from 10 matches was over adequate to cement their location while in the finals.
In qualifying they proved their ability to beat average teams convincingly and they're going to really need to repeat this around the grand phase if they are to repeat their superb campaigns of 1974 and 1982 where they completed 3rd. Nonetheless, In addition they should verify they have got what it will take to conquer the more powerful sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia ended up dispatched in advance of beating Brazil to assert third location.
They undoubtedly have the firepower to take action and Polands major energy lies in assault. In the course of qualifying they cracked in 27 plans, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the very least once in all 10 of their qualifying matches. More importantly, they scored ten more than group winners England managed for all their multi-million kilos well worth of strikers and only three sides scored additional aims compared to Poles for the duration 꽁머니 of the ecu qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Plans Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen targets among them during qualifying even though Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is also in contention.