During the final phase of qualifying the Socceroos have twice conceded a late goal in the final 15 minutes of play when they had previously led.

The first time was in the 2-2 draw away to Saudi Arabia, and in the previous qualifier against Iraq, Australia again drew when they were in position to win the game.

Speaking before Australia’s World Cup qualifier against UAE, Postecoglou said he would not consider taking a more conservative approach to protect a lead late in the game.

“No, there is no temptation,” he said.

The Australian national team boss also went into detail about how the Socceroos' attacking philosophy goes hand in hand with the defensive strategy.

“Do we work just solely on just defence? No, because that is not how we want to play the game,” Postecoglou said.

“We don’t exclusively work on just attack because when we are attacking we are working on the defensive side on the game as well.

“What we’ve tried to do is over the last three and a half years is build a philosophy where every time we are just adding a little more, rather than starting from square one.

“Even when we changed the system and this is not the first time that we have done that even though people think it is - we’ve been building in stuff along the way, so it doesn’t make it such a drastic change.

“That includes the defensive side of the game and we do a hell of a lot work on the defensive side of the game and we do it when we’ve got the ball and that is our preference.”

After four successive draws, the Aussies are in desperate need of a win in to get their campaign for Russia 2018 back on track, however, Postecoglou played down the importance of tomorrow night’s game.

“It’s no bigger than last Thursday,” he said.

“It’s obviously a World Cup qualifier and we’ve set up an environment where we are prepared for every game in the same way and this is no different.

“If we win tomorrow night it doesn’t make the Saudi Arabia game less important and if we don’t win it doesn’t make it more important.

“At the end of the day it’s a game we want to play well in and perform well in and win and from that perspective it’s no different to any other World Cup game.”

Even though Australia sit in third place and three points behind Group B leaders Saudi Arabia and Japan, Postecoglou felt the Socceroos were still in a strong position with four games left.

“In terms of qualifying we are still in a position where our fate is on our own hands,” he said.

 “We only start looking at those things if that gets out of your control but we still in a position that we know that if we perform well and we win our remaining games we’ll have qualified strongly.”