Outright Odds: a hundred twenty five/1
Team A Winners: four/one
Next a disastrous 2002 Environment Cup campaign where mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides potential customers only for them being beaten two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland might be eager to recreate their previous World Cup glories.
Under mentor Pawel Janas, Poland created brief function of their qualifying team, taking pleasure in household and away victories versus Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two slender 2-1 defeats to England prevented a clean sweep but eight wins outside of 10 matches was a lot more than more than enough to cement their place inside the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capacity to defeat regular teams convincingly and they will must repeat this on the grand phase Should they be to repeat their glorious strategies of 1974 and 1982 through which they finished 3rd. Nevertheless, Additionally they must prove they have got what it will require to defeat the much better sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia have been dispatched just before beating Brazil to claim 3rd spot.
They unquestionably hold the firepower to do so and Polands primary strength lies in attack. Through qualifying they cracked in 27 plans, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored not less than the moment in all ten in their qualifying matches. Far more importantly, they scored 10 much more than group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs . truly worth of 꽁머니 strikers and only three sides scored much more objectives when compared to the Poles in the course of the European qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Goals Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 goals between them during qualifying even though Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is likewise in rivalry.
