Outright Odds: 125/1
Team A Winners: four/1
Next a disastrous 2002 Earth Cup campaign by which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospects just for them to be beaten two-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland will be eager to recreate their former Environment Cup glories.
Underneath mentor Pawel Janas, Poland built short perform in their qualifying team, having fun with household and away victories in opposition to Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire and Wales. Two narrow 2-1 defeats to England prevented a clean sweep but 8 wins outside of ten matches was in excess of sufficient to cement their put while in the finals.
In qualifying they proved their ability to defeat ordinary teams convincingly and they'll need to repeat this within the grand phase If they're to repeat their glorious strategies of 1974 and 1982 in which 꽁머니 they completed third. Having said that, they also ought to show they have got what it will take to beat the more powerful sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia were being dispatched right before beating Brazil to assert 3rd location.
They definitely contain the firepower to do so and Polands key toughness lies in attack. For the duration of qualifying they cracked in 27 targets, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored at the very least once in all ten of their qualifying matches. A lot more importantly, they scored 10 a lot more than group winners England managed for all their multi-million lbs . truly worth of strikers and only a few sides scored more aims than the Poles in the course of the eu qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Targets Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 goals among them all through qualifying even though Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is also in competition.