Sentences with phrase «defeat by the champion»

Not unexpected but defeat by the champion's elect gives the sense of a season that is fizzling out.

Not exact matches

It's the media's role to point out problems that need to be addressed, and with AI's quick growth — demonstrated poignantly with the recent defeat of Go champion Lee Sedol by a Google computer — it's a worthwhile subject to discuss.

A bot created by the Elon Musk - backed nonprofit OpenAI defeated champion human player Danylo «Dendi» Ishutin in two back to back demonstration matches.

The enhanced AlphaGo defeated the AlphaGo AI that beat world champion Lee Sedol 4 - 1 in Korea last March by 100 games to 0 after just three days of practice.

He is referring to how a program developed by Google was able to defeat Lee Sedol, a board game champion in 2016.

The important essay entitled «Jewish Intellectuals and the De-Christianization of American Culture in the Twentieth Century» holds that the old Protestant cultural hegemony was defeated in no small part by the growing number of Jews championing «a secular vision of American culture» in the «American academic and literary intelligentsia» and in the best and most influential universities.

The versatile defensive weapon has found his route to a centre - back spot blocked by Daley Blind this term, and has only been used to fill the left - back berth following the long - term injury suffered by Luke Shaw during Man United's Champions League defeat to PSV Eindhoven last week.

Alas, I suspect those I have defeated never knew they were in a race, but, at 34, victories are as hard to come by as they were when I was 12, and once again I am Frank Fremont, grim, crew - cut captain of the Gilbertian Garwhals, the peerless champions of the dice swimming league.

It's a dire start for the reigning champions, and Mourinho has found himself under immense pressure — particularly following consecutive league defeats to West Ham United and Liverpool, as well as the midweek defeat by Stoke City in the Capital One Cup.

The Champions league was not sacked by that Bayern defeat, it goes back to failing to beat average sides.

France, hosts for next summer's European Championships tournament, defeated world champions Germany 2 - 0 thanks to goals from Olivier Giroud and Andre - Pierre Gignac, but the game has been wholly overshadowed by a series of terrorist incidents during and after the match.

The news will be welcomed by Neil Lennon's side, who sprang one of the surprises of last season's Champions League group stage when Tony Watt's late winner inflicted a rare defeat on a Barca side that did include Messi that night.

After all, a point away from home against the champions would not be a bad result by any means, whereas yet another defeat, even if it is a narrow one, would inflict further damage on the confidence and self - belief of the Arsenal players.

Chelsea players were reportedly left «irked» by the behaviour of Antonio Conte after the 3 - 0 defeat to Barcelona in the Champions League in midweek.

Chelsea have also recently been dumped out of the Carabao Cup by Arsenal after a semi-final defeat, and will be big underdogs against La Liga leaders Barcelona when they meet in the Champions League next week.

So the former Arsenal academy star Kristoffer Olsson and his team mates from the Danish champions FC Midtjylland did us a massive favour by inflicting a painful and damaging defeat on Louis van Gaal and his players last night.

Real sit top of La Liga, yet were easily dismissed by reigning champions Atletico whose hopes of retaining the title will be reignited, and Ancelotti concedes that some serious reflection on his side after the defeat must now take place.

The Portuguese manager overcame a sluggish start to guide the Club of the Principality back into the top three and also guided them to the quarter - final of the Champions League, where they were only defeated 1 - 0 by Juventus on aggregate.

TENNIS — Wimbledon champion BILLIE JEAN KING of Berkeley, Calif. gained her third straight National women's indoor title by defeating Rosemary Casals 6 - 3, 9 - 7 in the finals in Winchester, Mass..

As noted by The Sun, the Brazilian ace was dropped for the Man Utd game last month after a reported build up of tension between him and Antonio Conte following their defeat to Roma in the Champions League.

There are various theories about why the Gunners keep falling short in the race for the Premier League title and our various and numerous injury problems certainly do not help, but it is the way that the team fails to turn up at times in crucial games, such as the EPL defeat by Wartford recently or the Champions League hammering at the hands of Bayern Munich that many will point to as evidence that the boss is not getting the best from his squad anymore.

It would be nice for Arsenal fans if our German international midfield star was right in what he says about this season's record two legged defeat in the Champions League knockout phase inflicted on us by many of his fellow countrymen.

Fortunately for the Gunners, no one has yet really taken the Premier League by the scruff of the neck and with the German Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich in our Champions League group, it was always looking like Arsenal would not finish on top and so that defeat away to Dinamo Zagreb is not necessarily a big problem.

He has also lifted the Italian Cup in 2015, and helped Juventus to the final of the Champions League last season, before they were defeated 3 - 1 by Barca.

That previous defeat was a time of real pressure on Arsene Wenger and the players as it left us below the spuds, having been knocked out of both domestic cups by Bradford and Blackburn and having lost at home to Bayern Munich in the Champions League.

Having been defeated by the Dutch the reigning champions then crashed out of the competition after losing to the Chileans, with this great team effort helping achieve that.

City were knocked out of the Champions League by Barcelona on Wednesday, and now only have the Premier League to play for, but after last weekend's shock defeat to Burnley, that too seems beyond them.

Shaw's injury overshadowed a disappointing 2 - 1 defeat for the Red Devils against the defending Eredivisie champions as Memphis Depay's goal against his former club was cancelled out by Moreno's header on the stroke of half - time, before Luciano Narsingh struck the winner just before the hour mark.

Perhaps slightly over-the-top and melodramatic, Barca's 4 - 0 defeat to Paris Saint - Germain in the Champions League this week was seen by some as a clear sign that it's an end of an era at the club and a rebuild is required.

After he missed the last half hour of Arsenal's last Champions League game against Anderlecht and then the away defeat by Swansea City in the Premier League, Mikel Arteta can be absolved from blame for the way the Gunners have thrown away two winning positions in a row.

The Arsenal captain was not absolving himself of blame for the dire performance and defeat by Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday night, but Mikel Arteta has taken the captain's role and delivered a stark and honest appraisal of where Arsenal went wrong and how we have to change quickly or forget about winning the Champions League.

The defeat, in which the English champion won only a single round, and that by a shade before Marciano had warmed up to the slaughter, has installed Cockell as a national hero.

The three achieved great success together at Atleti, where they won the Liga BBVA crown in 2014, before advancing to the Champions League final, where they were defeated by fierce rivals Real Madrid.

The north London based club are without a win in their last six games and were defeated at home by Bayer Leverkusen in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday.

SOCCER — NPSL: In the last week of regular - season play BALTIMORE (162), the Eastern Division champion, was defeated by Pittsburgh, 3 - 2, while PHILADELPHIA (157) clinched second place with 2 - 1 victories over Oakland and New York.

The Red Devils moved on from their dismal home defeat to Southampton by seeing off Derby County in the FA Cup and Stoke City in the league, before drawing against Chelsea after Diego Costa rescued a late point for the beleaguered champions.

Our memory of the great Cinderella basketball champions of the 1980s is dictated by the great teams NC State and Villanova defeated.

Having calmed down after being subjected to that ridiculous and frustrating Champions League defeat by Olympiacos, I can see things in a clearer way.

In a thrilling, closely contested finish, Central Washington defeated defending champion Arizona for the West Coast Collegiate 7s Championship at Sheeran Field on Treasure Island on Sunday, Oct. 22 by a score of 17 - 15.

don't you know that the champions league defeat was a deliberate ploy by our esteemed coach to get out of the worthless competition so that we can concentrate on our fourth place trophy and the mighty fa cup.....

When you look at Arsenal's League position and our horrendous double defeat by Bayern Munich in the Champions League you could be forgiven for thinking that this is the Gunners» worst season ever under Arsene Wenger, but Le Prof feels that his squad has proven that they are «special» and have a great attitude....

He was also part of the squad that reached the final of the Champions League in 2014, although he was an unused substitute as Atleti were defeated 4 - 1 by rivals Real Madrid after extra time.

Our club record signing was also the only Arsenal player in the top five runners in that awful Champions League defeat by Monaco, so to say he is lazy and disinterested is just not true.

Arsenal's devastating defeat to Tottenham yesterday may have made the cancellation of St Totteringham's Day official, but the two draws by the Manchester sides mean that we are far from out of the race for the Champions League places.

Monaco failed to progress to the final four of the Champions League when they were defeated, on aggregate, by Juventus in the quarter - finals.

Arsenal bounced back from last weekend's defeat to a team not to be mentioned in midweek, by beating Leicester City 2 - 1, to keep us within a point of the Champions League places.

But in the statement reported by Arsenal.com it sounded to me like the manager was really preparing the Arsenal fans to see him field a much changed and weakened Arsenal team in the following game, our trip to Monaco to attempt to put right that horrendous defeat in the Champions League first leg.

Guardiola was dismissed from the field of play after a half - time tirade at the referee in Tuesday's 2 - 1 defeat by Liverpool in the quarter - final of the Champions League.

Arsenal lost seven of 12 matches between 31 January and 10 April, including a 10 - 2 aggregate defeat by Bayern Munich in the Champions League last 16.

But the Blues will go into this game — with a bit of concern after their momentum was brought to a crushing halt by a heavy defeat in the Champions League Quarter - final first leg away from home against Liverpool.