Holland coach Marco van Basten is keen to prove there is more than one potential World Cup winner in Group C.

With Brazil and England failing to sparkle so far, Italy often indifferent and France struggling, the only champagne football served up so far has come from Argentina.

The South Americans' 6-0 demolition of Serbia and Montenegro featured some breathtaking moves but van Basten was nonetheless hopeful of getting the better of Jose Pekerman's side in Frankfurt tomorrow.

He said: "I think we also did a good job to beat Serbia and Montenegro and also the Ivory Coast. There were periods when we didn't play particularly well and if you want to continue in the tournament you cannot have too many of those.

"But both teams are very good and we can do one of two things. We can either watch Argentina and change our team or we can think about ourselves and our strengths.

"We are thinking only about ourselves and we will play our own game, even though it is Argentina we are playing and we know it will be difficult."

The group winners are likely to play either Portugal or Mexico, who will have wrapped up Group D before the Dutch kick off, and although van Basten was initially reluctant to express a preference, it emerged he was warier of Luiz Felipe Scolari's side.

He said: "Portugal are an experienced team and they beat us two years ago in the semi-finals of Euro 2004. They are pretty much still the same team while we have changed a lot of players.

"Mexico are also experienced and we played them just a few weeks ago. If we play them again we can be sure they will be motivated and well prepared."

Both sides are set to make changes tomorrow, primarily to prevent players who have been booked in the first two games picking up a knock-out phase suspension via another yellow card.

Two of those players, Giovanni van Bronkhorst and John Heitinga are injured anyway, but Mark van Bommel and Arjen Robben are likely to be left on the bench.

Argentina's desire to ring the changes could see van Bommel's Barcelona team-mate Lionel Messi, who is still a few days short of his 19th birthday, given a start.

Van Basten acknowledged that Argentina possessed strength in depth. He said: "We have seen their games and they have a well-organised team that plays well together.

"They also have some great players, even some that have been on the bench like Messi, so it is going to be a very difficult game for us."

Midfielder Phillip Cocu has recovered from an ankle injury to win his 100th cap.

Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar is also in line to win his 112th and so equal Frank de Boer's Dutch record.