Australia's World Cup dreams came to an end when it suffered a 1-0 loss to Germany in Argentina yesterday, and the disappointing result has caused plenty of headaches for Murray.

After years as the dominant force, the Hockeyroos are slipping from the hockey radar while their male counterparts step into the spotlight.

The Kookaburras confirmed themselves as early gold medal favourites for the 2012 London Olympics after trouncing England in the Champions Trophy final last month and Murray was aware he needed to tinker with the women's squad to get better results.

''Obviously we are disappointed. Not only in the result but in the way we played,'' Murray said. ''In our view we didn't play to our potential today, we turned the ball over far too easily in the middle of the field and we have a fair bit of work between now and London.''

The international heavyweights will now face Korea tomorrow for a chance to finish fifth, with the lowly result prompting Murray to contemplate a team shake-up prior to the London Olympics.

''Obviously we have the game against Korea to get over first, and then we have the Commonwealth Games,'' Murray said.

''But it's now about finding a group for London and making sure we have the players with the ability and the physical capacity to play these types of games at this type of tournament.''

Hockeyroos captain Madonna Blyth was particularly disappointed with her side's inability to convert chances into goals.

''We are obviously very disappointed that we couldn't score, we did make a few chances but I think that our awareness in the circle both in attack and in defence let us down,'' she said.

''We created a few more opportunities in the second half and a few more corners but we didn't have too many shots that really worried them.''

Needing a win to progress through to the semi-finals, Australia started the match in the worst possible fashion conceding a goal inside the first two minutes, however upon video review the goal was disallowed.

But despite dominating the match, the Germans were unable to find the killer blow thanks to some brilliant defensive efforts from Nicole Arrold and goalkeeper Rachael Lynch.

When Kate Hollywood received a green card early in the second half, and was sent from the field for two minutes, Germany took its chance and drew a penalty corner.

Veteran Tina Bachmann converted to give Germany the one goal advantage.