Luongo, who arrived at Loftus Road in 2015, has been a regular in the 2017/2018 campaign, making 34 appearances.

The Socceroo has scored five goals and notched three assists - his best return since he landed with the London club three years ago and is a key man for QPR boss Ian Holloway.

Barring injury or a drastic lack of form, he will be on the plane to Russia. But Luongo is not counting his chickens just yet, and knows he has to continue to impress new gaffer Bert van Marwijk.

"If you are doing well at your club I think you are in with a good shot of making it, if you keep your form up and people are talking about you," he told said.

"I am doing well there. It's the only thing I can do. If I play on Tuesday [against Colombia] I have got to do the right things, but I am still thinking first and foremost, what needs to be done to help the team and get things right.

"But if I can put a little bit of flavour of myself on it then that's just a bonus. I think everyone should be thinking along the same lines."

Luongo has been playing in the Championship for several seasons since he left League One side Swindon Town.

Every week he comes up against number of Socceroos in clubland - from Mile Jedinak at Aston Villa to Bristol City's Bailey Wright, Hull City's Jackson Irvine and Millwall pair James Meredith and Tim Cahill.

Luongo believes the Championship is the perfect platform to get a player right for the World Cup.

"I don't think you can get much better," the 25-year-old said.

"The only thing I can think of (a negative) is the amount of games, but then again I am playing loads of games, getting double what the boys playing in the A-League are. My form can dip, but I have another game round the corrner to rectify that.

"But the sharpness, the way we play, the way every Championship team plays, I don't think it can do me any harm. You go to a lower Premier League side, you are probably defending for too long and you are not touching the ball as much. 

"When we first came in we were doing a lot of that, and we were in that transition stage and my form was like that.

"It's hard to get a rhythm when you come in here and you are expected to have a lot of the ball and are expected to do things, it's hard to switch on and say I can do that when you are so used to doing something else for your club. 

"But in the Championship you get all types of football, all styles of play, and that's preparing me well for any team.

"Look at a team like Norway, if we play that in the World Cup I don't think many of the boys will be used to a team that just kicks it to a front man and gets behind it."