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LONDON -- While a defeated Arsene Wenger was counting the cost of Arsenals young defenders, a triumphant Jose Mourinho highlighted the value of Zlatan Ibrahimovics experience to Manchester United on a day of contrasts for the two managers on Sunday.With three of his first-team defenders unavailable to face Liverpool, Wenger gave an English Premier League debut to 20-year-old Rob Holding, alongside 21-year-old Calum Chambers in central defense.The experiment didnt work.A rampant Liverpool came from behind to beat Arsenal 4-3 at Emirates Stadium, ripping Wengers young defense to pieces with consummate ease in the second half.By contrast, the 34-year-old Ibrahimovic on his EPL debut helped his teams attacking play and then scored a superb goal as United opened its campaign with a 3-1 win at Bournemouth.Theo Walcott had put Arsenal ahead at Emirates Stadium, but his side was soon overwhelmed after Liverpool leveled through Philippe Coutinho on the stroke of halftime and then raced into a 4-1 lead after the break.Liverpools fluent passing and clinical finishing in the second half was simply too hot for Arsenal to handle. Classy goals by Adam Lallana, Coutinho and Sadio Mane put the Reds in control before Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Chambers scored to give Arsenal hope -- in vain.Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp, in his first full season in charge, saw both sides of a sensational result.Scoring four goals is wonderful, conceding three is the opposite of that emotion, he said. It was hard work but a deserved win in the end. It feels brilliant at the moment, actually.We were far away today from showing our whole quality, he added. But we showed a few nice signs, a few not-so-nice signs.The signs were not so encouraging for Arsenal, which already looks to be struggling to meet fans expectations after finishing as runner-up to Leicester last season.With his team booed off the pitch, as much for the clubs lack of new signings as for another season-opening defeat, Wenger pointed to Coutinhos equalizer as the turning point.Of course we are bitterly disappointed, said the Frenchman, who will mark his 20th year in charge next month. It was a contrast between the two halves. We lost this game for many reasons and one of them is (the impact) of Liverpool making it 1-1 just before half-time.He added: Maybe we lacked a bit of experience, but if you look well at the goals, I dont think it was necessarily the inexperienced players that cost us the goals today.However, Wenger highlighted the absentees in defense -- Gabriel Paulista, Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny -- while agreeing on the need to be ready for the first game of the season.But we are not stupid, Wenger said. We prepared well the players we have in, but I think you have to consider we have been a bit unlucky as well... You have to sometimes accept that you cannot control absolutely everything.There was no need for such excuses from Mourinho, whose first league game in charge of United was a far more comfortable affair.Juan Mata opened the scoring five minutes before halftime and captain Wayne Rooney headed Uniteds second in the 59th before Ibrahimovic rifled home a shot from 25 meters (yards). Adam Smith later scored Bournemouths consolation goal.Mourinho was pleased with the victory and the performance from Ibrahimovic, with the Swedish forwards role at United expected to go beyond just his performances on the pitch.The first thing I can tell you is that his table for breakfast and his table for meals, he is surrounded by the young ones, surrounded by the kids, Mourinho said. Luke Shaw, Marcus Rashford, these are the guys that are with him on the table. 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PHOENIX -- Talk of Rich Hills blister has been quieted by the left-handers blistering pace since taking the mound for the Los Angeles Dodgers, at least mostly.Hill will look to extend his 19-inning scoreless streak Thursday night when the Dodgers travel to Phoenix to face the Arizona Diamondbacks.Hill (3-0, 0.00 ERA) threw seven perfect innings against the Miami Marlins in his last start but was pulled by Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts for several reasons, including a familiar issue on Hills pitching hand.There was heat on his index finger, Roberts said. It was starting to get tender.Hill, who said his finger was fine, was less than happy to come out of the game but understood where the outing figured into the Dodgers pennant hopes.Dave was in a very difficult position, said Hill, who will be making his fourth start. You look at it, and you move on. Thats all you can do.Hill has won his past nine decisions between Los Angeles and Oakland.The Dodgers position has continued to improve over the past week-plus. With Los Angeles 2-0 rain-soaked victory at Yankee Stadium, the Dodgers have won eight of their past ten and are five games ahead of the San Francisco Giants in the NL West.Los Angeles posted its major league-leading 15th shutout of the season on Wednesday.Hill will be opposed by Diamondbacks right-hander Archie Bradley (6-9, 5.10), who lasted just three innings in his past start, allowing five runs on eight hits with three strikeouts.Bradley has had success in the past against Los Angeles, posting a 3.06 ERA in three prior starts against the Dodgers.Arizona manager Chip Hale had to dig a little deeper into his bullpen than anticipated in Wednesday nighhts 11-6 against the Colorado Rockies.ddddddddddddRight-hander Rubby De La Rosa was on a rough 60-pitch count which the Diamondbacks optimistically hoped would carry him through at least four innings. Instead, he needed 40 pitches to get through the first, walking two and giving up a home run along the way and earning a visit to the mound from Hale.De La Rosa came back to start the second and promptly hit Daniel Descalso with a pitch and Hale went to swingman Randall Delgado three outs into the game to finish the second before shifting to scheduled piggyback reliever Braden Shipley in the third.Its just hard because that order is so good at scoring runs, Hale said. They were on him pretty well at the end.Hale used seven pitchers but, after Shipley left, none of the final four through more than 17 pitches.Offensively, the Diamondbacks continued rolling against the Rockies.Jean Segura has posted consecutive two-homer games and finished Wednesdays win with five hits in six at-bats. He has four home runs in his past two games and continued his march toward 200 hits, from which hes now 18 away.Brandon Drury became the first Diamondbacks rookie to homer in three straight games and has driven in a run in six straight contests. Light-hitting shortstop Chris Owings also homered on Wednesday for an offense that scored a franchise-record 34 runs in three games against Colorado on a franchise-record tying 50 hits.The Dodgers have won 10 of the first 15 meetings between the teams, though the clubs have split the six prior games at Chase Field. ' ' '