Giovanni van Bronckhorst has warned Brazil that Holland are ready to break their World Cup stranglehold over them.

Holland can be backed at 10/3 with Blue Square to beat Brazil in 90 minutes and are 7/4 to reach the semi-finals.

The Dutch have twice in recent times suffered heartbreaking exits at the hands of the five-times winners, going out at the quarter-final stage in 1994 and then in the semis four years later after a penalty shoot-out.

But there is a confidence this time around they can get past Dunga’s men and stake their own claim on a trophy they have never won despite several near misses.

The two sides meet at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth in the last eight, and skipper Van Bronckhorst is confident the tables will be turned.

He said: “Obviously, the games in the past haven’t gone our way, but we want to win the World Cup, and that means we have to beat Brazil.

“We are a tight group. This team has been together for four or six years now and we know what the strengths of all the players are.

“It’s always good to go out on to the pitch with a team you can trust.

“We go into every game to win it and fight for each other, and everybody has to believe we can win this match.

“The game against Brazil is a big game, but we are confident and we will go out on to the pitch to win.”