Australia beaten in world hockey semis January 18, 2014 - 4:27AM Australia will play off for the bronze medal at hockey's World League Finals in Delhi after losing 4-3 to the Netherlands on Friday. The Kookaburras fought back from two goals down at halftime to lead 3-2 but ultimately succumbed to the Dutch who also beat them in the group stage. Two penalty corner strikes from Kieran Govers either side of Russell Ford's superb long range deflection had helped the Kookaburras fight their way into the lead. But goals in the final ten minutes from Jeroen Hertzberger and Mink van der Weerden consigned the Aussie men to the third place playoff. New Zealand made the final by beating England 7-6 in a shoot-out after an entertaining 3-3 draw in the first semi-final. It was an exciting match. We're disappointed, naturally" said Australia coach Ric Charlesworth. Throughout the tournament our defence has been leaky, we've given up goals just through our errors and we've given up three today. It's hard to win the game when you do that. We had an own goal [credited to Netherlands' Jeroen Hertzberger], we had the ball in the circle, and the last one we kicked the ball straight at an attacker when we could have played the ball anywhere. That's loose and it's not good enough and you get hurt when that happens. It was a good fightback and then in the end we constructed the best chance of the game and from point blank we range we went over the top. We've got a lot of things we can fix but I think that it's our own fault. We had the opportunities but we didn't take them and we made too many errors. Charlesworth was referring to an opportunity that fell to Liam De Young in the last minute of the match as he could only sweep the ball over the goal sliding to meet Jake Whetton's pass.