Outright Odds: one hundred twenty five/one
Team A Winners: four/one
Subsequent a disastrous 2002 World Cup campaign through which coach Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective customers only for them to generally be beaten two-0 by South Korea and hammered 4-0 by Portugal, Poland might be keen to recreate their former Globe Cup glories.
Less than mentor Pawel Janas, Poland manufactured short work in their qualifying team, experiencing home and away victories towards Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Two slender 2-one defeats to England prevented a cleanse sweep but 8 wins from ten matches was much more than more than enough to cement their place in the finals.
In qualifying they proved their ability to beat normal teams convincingly and they'll ought to repeat this within the grand stage When they are to repeat their superb campaigns of 1974 and 1982 where they concluded third. On the other hand, Additionally they have to confirm they have got what it takes to defeat the stronger sides as they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia have been dispatched ahead of beating Brazil to say third spot.
They undoubtedly provide the firepower to take action and Polands primary energy lies in attack. For the duration of qualifying they cracked in 27 plans, notably the 8-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored a minimum of as soon as in all ten in their qualifying matches. Far more importantly, they scored ten greater than group winners England managed for all their multi-million kilos value of strikers and only a few sides scored more aims compared to Poles throughout the European qualifying marketing campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz 토토 Frankowski, nicknamed The Ambitions Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 objectives amongst them all through qualifying even though Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is usually in contention.