Kruse was a dominant force on the wing, setting up two goals and scoring Australia's third in the 4-0 rout that puts the Socceroos just one win away from Brazil 2014.
 
Dual A-League championship-winning coach Ange Postecoglou described Kruse as Australia's most important player ahead of next Tuesday's final crucial qualifier against Iraq in Sydney.
 
"When we needed quality tonight, he delivered and he is the one player who can deliver," Postecolgou told Fox Sports.
 
"His cross for Timmy Cahiil was absolutely superb. That for me is the biggest thing which came out of this game is the emergence of Robbie Kruse as an international player."
 
Socceroos skipper Lucas Neill said the team had always had confidence in Kruse's ability to be a match winner and was delighted that the Bayer Leverkusen-bound winger was able to put his best foot forward on such a big stage.
 
"Robbie was very, very good," said Neill. "We knew if we could get good possession and play some combination passing, we can get him and Tommy Oar down the wings.
 
"Robbie was great down the right getting in behind and set up a few cutbacks and crosses including the early goal.
 
"You could see that his confidence grew as the game went on and the more tired they got, the better he got."
 
But coach Osieck saw his performance very differently and insisted he would not be making a hero out of anyone from the game.
 
Despite praising the work of Mark Milligan and Lucas Neill, Osieck insisted that while Kruse did some things well, he was unhappy with other aspects of his play.
 
''You probably saw me talking to him at the sideline," said Osieck after the game. "There were some elements of his game that I didn't like.
 
"He knows how I assess his performance. I don't want to go into details, but a game is not just running forwards."
 
He added: "I mean it’s not Robbie – I personally saw a great performance from Mark Milligan in midfield.

“Normally I don’t single out anybody but our central defence was so solid. There was Lucas as captain and Sasa (Ognenovski) he complemented him pretty well.

“And in midfield both Bresh and Millsy they did a great job – they again complemented themselves almost perfectly. We had good pace along the flanks.

“Brett Holman, despite the lack of game practice he showed what he could do for the team.  And I don’t have to talk about Timmy (Cahill) he’s always there and he’s always dangerous and he’s always in a position to score.”

Osieck added: “You can never dream of a score like 4-0 but I think overall the performance was excellent, there were some outstanding individual contributions to the game and I think we presented ourselves pretty well as a unit."

But he said the impact of fielding an unchanged first XI couldn't be underestimated.

“One aspect shouldn’t be forgotten, today and the last game for the first time for a long long period we played in the identical line up," he said.

“Looking back I always had to change the formation be it to injury, be it through suspension and I always had to put in players who are not really used to playing on the international level, who made the first appearance in a qualifying campaign.

“And I mean we all have to consider that, it shouldn’t be an excuse but all the coaches know, that consistency is a major element for let’s say stable team performance.”

Osieck said there was no room for complacency despite the comfortable victory, with a misstep against Iraq is Sydney still capable of seeing the Socceroos cede the vital second spot to Oman.

"It’s not all glory today – I just had some very serious words with the group,” Osieck said.  “There’s no chance now to celebrate or whatever.  We take it, it’s in the books and now we have to focus for the next game.

“The preparation for that starts here already the players are in the ice bath and the recovery starts. We have another training tomorrow morning before we get back to Sydney so recovery for the starting eleven and some intensity for the boys who were on the bench.

“I always have a great deal of respect to any opponent we play and if we have our noses up we definitely don’t see what’s on the ground. I don’t allow anyone to lose the ground under their feet.”

 Post-game, Kruse was humble about his efforts.
 
"I was thrilled with the way we played but it boils down to next week and we have to recover and prepare for that. It's half the job done and hopefully we can do that next week," he said.
 
"Everyone has to work well together and I think tonight we did that. The defensive structure laid the platform for the attacking to come into play.
 
"I think we played some wonderful football and we created numerous chances where we could have got more goals."
 
Kruse said the foundations for a dominant showing against Jordan were put down with the gritty 1-1 draw against Japan in Saitama last week.
 
"We try to prepare as well as we can every match. We set out with the same intentions to go out and play with that intensity and that performance and we gained a lot of confidence from our performance last week," he said.
 
"Tonight the attacking part of our play just clicked and hopefully we can translate that into next week.
If we can get it done in Sydney, we are in the World Cup."