The Socceroos face Honduras at the Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano on Friday, 10 November (Honduran local time), then play the second leg on Australian soil on Wednesday, 15 November 2017 in Sydney.

Rasic guided Australia to their first ever World Cup when the Socceroos competed in Germany 1974 and held that honour until Guus Hiddink led the 'Golden Generation' to Germany 2006, 32 years later.

Many have called for Postecoglou to take a defensive mindset into the first leg against Honduras but Rasic said the current Socceroos boss doesn’t have time to waver from his attacking approach.

 “We need a miracle in Honduras and victory in Sydney,” Rasic told FourFourTwo.

 

“Ange does not think of football the way I do. We have totally different philosophies. I would lock up the gate in Honduras and fight for my life and I would choose the men who could fight the battle.

“In his three years he did not want to play football with discipline and order and you can’t play with discipline and order against Honduras in one game. You have to practice that.

“When I was coach of the Socceroos I practised that for three years to get that right.”

Since Australia overcame Syria and progressed to the intercontinental play-off the discussion has centred on Postecoglou’s coaching future, but Rasic is concerned with team tactics and selection and pointed to the Socceroos’ big guns.

“Aaron Mooy is playing some great football and Tom Rogic you can’t ignore this type of player,” he said.

“You can’t ignore people who are playing for Celtic and Huddersfield for god’s sake.

“Mathew Leckie is a big miss over in Honduras he is irreplaceable in my opinion.

 “Then Mile Jedinak is back but I don’t know if Jedinak is a good call. I don’t have anything against the boy because he always gives honest service.”

Rasic added: “Would Ange swallow his pride and play for a result or would he be playing the way that football in his opinion should be played?

“But you can’t achieve this and go to Honduras and say that’s how we want to play now. Let’s hope that Rogic or Mooy can do something special.”

Meanwhile Postecoglou has no intention to curb his attacking approach and maintains that he will even increase the attacking mindset even further.

“We will keep forging ahead in the way we want to play our football and make sure if anything that we can be more aggressive in our approach than we have been,” he said.

“Whilst the road we are taking is the long road I think the experience of even the two Syria games have been enormously beneficial for the players.

“Just to get through that and deal with the consequences of what if things don’t work out and it’s the end and to be able to overcome all that is definitely been a positive experience.

 “With that in mind you hope with the next two games we get even more aggressive and a little bit more progressive in our game but nothing will change.

“We’ve started this journey and we will see it through.”