Outright Odds: 125/1
Group A Winners: 4/1
Adhering to a disastrous 2002 Earth Cup marketing campaign through which mentor Jerzy Engel talked up his sides prospective clients only for them to get crushed two-0 by South Korea and hammered four-0 by Portugal, Poland will likely be keen to recreate their previous World Cup glories.
Under mentor Pawel Janas, Poland built short work in their qualifying team, experiencing house and absent victories against Austria, Azerbaijan, Northern Eire 토토 and Wales. Two slender 2-one defeats to England prevented a thoroughly clean sweep but 8 wins away from 10 matches was much more than ample to cement their put inside the finals.
In qualifying they proved their ability to beat typical groups convincingly and they're going to really need to repeat this to the grand phase if they are to repeat their wonderful campaigns of 1974 and 1982 where they completed third. However, they also must prove they've got what it requires to conquer the more robust sides since they did in 1974, when Argentina, Italy, Sweden and Yugoslavia had been dispatched prior to beating Brazil to say third put.
They unquestionably contain the firepower to take action and Polands major strength lies in attack. All through qualifying they cracked in 27 plans, notably the eight-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan and scored not less than after in all 10 of their qualifying matches. Much more importantly, they scored ten over group winners England managed for all their multi-million kilos really worth of strikers and only a few sides scored additional objectives when compared to the Poles through the European qualifying campaign.
Elche striker Tomasz Frankowski, nicknamed The Ambitions Hunter and Celtic ahead Maciej Zurawski fired in 14 goals amongst them for the duration of qualifying even though Southamptons Grzegorz Rasiak is usually in competition.