A Socceroos side made up mainly of second string players continued Australias excellent form in the World Cup qualifiers, with a 2-0 over Bahrain on Wednesday night.With Saturdays draw against Qatar enough to see them through to South Africa 2010, Pim Verbeek experimented with some fringe players.There were some familiar faces Deven Marrero Jersey on hand though, with Schwarzer and Kewell both starting, along with regular first team stars Culina and Wilkshire, the latter returning after a suspension.As one might have expected, regardle s of the strength of the lineup, the home side proved to be the stronger team throughout most of the match.They took a deserved lead 10 minutes into the second half, with Mile Sterjovski capitalising upon some poor defending to slash home a half volley from within the 18 yard box.With just two minutes to go, Jason Culina nearly finished off a nice pa sage of build-up play with a stunning overhead kick. Although flying well past Sayed Jaffer in the Bahrain goal, it couldnt evade the post. Nonethele s, Sheffield Uniteds David Carney was on hand to slam home the rebound to make it 2-0 to Australia.The Socceroos probably should have scored more, but the victory keeps them top of Group A, and saw them maintain their run of clean sheets in this final stage of the qualifying proce s.David Carney swept home the Socceroos secondGoalkeeper Mark Schwarzer praised the way his side has gone about qualifying for the finals.The Fulham shotstopper told ESPN: Im extremely proud (of) the way the whole team and management have gone about their job the whole campaign, theyve been extremely profe sional.I think if we can push on again against Japan and keep another clean sheet, we cant do any better than that.Asian Qualifying Stage 4, Group A after June 10With the Au sies now two points clear of Japan on top of the qualifying group, it appears that they will be heading to South Africa in style. However Japan will try and take top spot for themselves when the two sides meet in Melbourne next Wednesday.Bahrain will fight it out with Uzbekistan to win the play-off spot, which will see one of them face a team from the Oceania qualifying area for a place in the World Cup. Jeff Locke Jersey