Euro 2012 Team-by-Team Preview: Poland

29 May 2012 09:54
Manager: Franciszek Smuda

Group: A

Bet-at-home odds: 33,00

Fixtures: Greece (8/6), Russia (12/6), Czech Republic (16/6)

As co-hosts for this summer's tournament, they automatically qualified and were put in group A along with Greece, Russia and Czech Republic. Poland first qualified for the European championship in 2008, they didn't get past the group stages. In the world cup they finished third twice (1974 and 1982).

Squad
Goalkeepers:
Wojciech Szczesny (Arsenal), Przemyslaw Tyton (PSV Eindhoven), Grzegorz Sandomierski (Jagiellonia Bialystok)
Defenders: Lukasz Piszczek (Borussia Dortmund), Marcin Wasilewski (Anderlecht), Jakub Wawrzyniak (Legia Warsaw), Marcin Kaminski (Lech Poznan), Grzegorz Wojtkowiak (Lech Poznan), Sebastian Boenisch (Werder Bremen), Damien Perquis (Sochaux)
Midfielders: Eugen Polanski (Mainz), Dariusz Dudka (Auxerre), Adam Matuszczyk (Fortuna Duesseldorf), Adrian Mierzejewski (Trabzonspor), Jakub Blaszczykowski (Borussia Dortmund), Ludovic Obraniak (Bordeaux), Maciej Rybus (Terek Grozny), Kamil Grosicki (Sivasspor), Rafal Murawski (Lech Poznan), Rafal Wolski (Legia Warsaw)
Forwards: Robert Lewandowski (Borussia Dortmund), Artur Sobiech (Hanover), Pawel Brozek (Celtic)

Source: DSG