Outright Odds: a hundred twenty five/1
Group A Winners: four/one
Pursuing a disastrous 2002 Entire world Cup marketing campaign in which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective customers only for them being crushed 2-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland might be keen to recreate their former Environment Cup glories.
Below mentor Pawel Janas, Poland built brief get the job done of their qualifying team, taking pleasure in house and away victories versus Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two slim two-one defeats to England prevented a clear sweep but 8 wins from ten matches was much more than enough to cement their location within the finals.
In qualifying they proved their capability to conquer common groups convincingly and they're going to ought to repeat this to the grand phase if they are to repeat their wonderful campaigns of 1974 and 1982 during which they concluded third. Nevertheless, they also should establish they've got what it will require to beat the more robust sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia were being dispatched in advance of beating Brazil to assert 3rd place.
They definitely possess the firepower to take action and Polands most important strength lies in assault. In the course of qualifying they cracked in 27 ambitions, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at least once in all ten of their qualifying matches. A lot more importantly, they scored ten over group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs worthy of of strikers and only three sides 꽁머니 scored a lot more objectives compared to the Poles during the eu qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Objectives Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in fourteen ambitions between them all through qualifying even though Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is likewise in contention.