Hardly beautiful but Socceroos' result is perfect as Australia wins through to World Cup finals Socceroos Tim Cahill (top right) and Tomas Rogic celebrate with teammate Josh Kennedy (bottom right) after Kennedy scored a goal during the FIFA World Cup qualifier between Australia and Iraq. IT WASN'T the prettiest of performances, but Holger Osieck's decision to bring Josh Kennedy on for Tim Cahill proved an inspired substitution on the night. Kennedy scored the goal of his career to send Australia into next year's World Cup finals. Speaking after the game, Kennedy said it was just "meant to be." "Holger was saving something for the last game obviously," he said. And it's absolutely amazing. It's been a long road to get back to where I am and this is the icing on the cake, definitely. Skipper Lucas Neill apologised to the crowd for not making the 1-0 victory easy to watch, but he was proud of his players. "I'm proud of everybody," he said. This has been a really tough campaign. I think we've stuck it out and we've shown some mental strength. I think our defensive performances over the least couple of games has been good and we've scored the goals again tonight. Sorry guys it wasn't pretty, but we've beaten what was in front of us and now we can really look forward and push ourselves now to very exciting tournament. It wasn't the convincing win many had predicted, but that won't matter now. the Socceroos are going to Brazil.