Know your Euro 2020 groups: Group E – How will Spain fare without Sergio Ramos?

Spain's national football team (Photo by JAVIER SORIANO/AFP via Getty Images)
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Robert Lewandowski of Poland
Robert Lewandowski of Poland (Photo by Rafal Oleksiewicz/PressFocus/MB Media/Getty Images) /

GROUP E – POLAND

The Poles qualified for their fourth successive European Championship by topping their group ahead of Austria. They amassed 25 out of a maximum 30 points, scoring 18 goals while conceding only five.

Poland’s best appearance at the Euros came in the previous edition where they reached the quarterfinals before being knocked out by eventual champions Portugal on penalties.

POLAND TEAM INFO

  • Manager – Paulo Sousa
  • Captain – Robert Lewandowski
  • Key Players – Robert Lewandowski, Arkadiusz Milik, Piotr Zielinski
  • FIFA Ranking – 21
  • Prediction – Last 16
  • First match of the tournament – vs Slovakia on June 14

Poland’s squad for the tournament

Wojciech Szczesny (Juventus), Lukasz Skorupski (Bologna), Lukasz Fabianski (West Ham)

Kamil Piatkowski (Rakow Czestochowa), Tomasz Kedziora (Dynamo Kyiv), Jan Bednarek (Southampton), Maciej Rybus (Lokomotiv Moscow), Kamil Glik (Benevento), Bartosz Bereszynski (Sampdoria), Michal Helik (Barnsley), Tymoteusz Puchacz (Lech Poznan)

Pawel Dawidowicz (Verona), Kacper Kozlowski (Pogon Szczecin), Karol Linetty (Torino), Grzegorz Krychowiak (Lokomotiv Moscow), Mateusz Klich (Leeds United), Jakub Moder (Brighton and Hove Albion), Premyszlaw Placheta (Norwich City), Przemyslaw Frankowski (DC United), Piotr Zielinski (Napoli), Kamil Jozwiak (Derby County)

Arkadiusz Milik (Marseille), Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich), Karol Swiderski (PAOK), David Kownacki (Fortuna Dusseldorf), Jakub Swierczok (Piast Gliwice)