Ralf Rangnick insists he was not responsible for Jesse Lingard taking an additional break that prevented him from playing in Manchester United's FA Cup defeat to Middlesbrough.
United squandered countless chances in regulation time against the seventh-placed Championship side and were eliminated 8-7 in a penalty shootout after Anthony Elanga blazed his spotkick into the stands.
Lingard and Edinson Cavani were both absent, with the latter still in Uruguay after he played in a World Cup qualifier against Venezuela in Montevideo on Tuesday night.