bhubaneswar precision over passion tactics over temper gonzalo peillat has imbibed the german style of hockey well the deadly dragflicker from argentina who switched allegiance to germany last year was the hattrick hero as the die honamas scripted another stunning comeback to put out the mighty australia in the semifinal of the fih world cupat the kalinga stadium here on friday the germans prevailed 43 in an edgeoftheseat thrillerthe first semifinal was only an appetiser as defending champions belgium and netherlands put up ablockbuster performance in the other lastfour contest the red lions battled past their neighbours 32 in the shootout after both the teams were locked 22 during regulation timewith 13 seconds remaining on the clock and a 33 scoreline peillat gave an angular pass from the 23m line with the australians focusing on justus weigand an unmarked niklas wellen scored the winner from behind the defendersearlier germany who rallied in a similar fashion to get past england in a last8 contest played catchup for the better part of the match australia coming off a sustained period of dominance went ahead with jeremy haywards penalty corner conversion in the 11th minute with ball possession oscillating between the two sides the kookaburras managed to find cracks in the german defence lachlan sharp was in sync with tom wickham who assisted nathan ephraums to double the lead with four minutes to go for halftimethere were penalty corner hits and misses on either side before peillat in his fourth consecutive attempt flicked the ball past andrew charter the dragflick completed his hattrick with two minutes to go and helped his team draw level after blake govers had given australia a 32 advantage in the 57th minutepeillat later said my heart is about to explode i told the boys let us try to find a way to win without going for it at the last second we are there until the last second and fighting for the opportunityon the key difference between playing for argentina and germany the 30yearold defender said back in argentina we are more passionate and in the german culture we are calmer and always go with tactics and try to find the oppositions weak pointindias loss germanys gainsouth african robin arkell who was the strength and conditioning coach of india since 2017 and played a key role in their podium finish at tokyo now heads same department for germany he is a really good guy what he does here is great especially in recovery said german coach andre henningchampions runbelgium banked on experience but not before the young dutch side gave them a hard time jip janssen put the dutch in control with a brace while tom boon and nicolas de kerpel stretched the match into the shootout seasoned goalkeeper vincent vanasch was rocksolid and created his teams pathway to the finalresultsaustralia 3 jeremy hayward 11 nathan ephraums 26 blake govers 57 lost to germany 4 gonzalo peillat 42 51 58 niklas wellen 59 belgium 3 victor wegnez arthur