Austrial beat Canada 4-0 in their Hawke's Bay Cup match at the Festival of Hockey in Hastings this afternoon, but coach Adam Commens was far from satisfied with the performance of his players.
Australia went into their round three match as the favoured side given their world ranking of third compared to Canada at 19 and completely dominated Canada in all facets of the game and created a large number of gilt edged scoring opportunities.
They went into the match knowing that they had to score plenty of goals to lift their goal difference in pool A if they were to wrest the top spot from Japan. Both sides ended pool play in an identical position with two wins and a draw and a 6 goal difference.
The result see's Japan take top spot in the pool as they scored a total of 10 goals in pool play against Australia's 7.
Post match Adam Commens expressed his disappointment at the players lack of finishing in the goal area and believes the players are not putting the lessons learnt on the practice turf into their match day performance.
