Ole Gunnar Solskjaer defended his decision to make five changes in Manchester United's Premier League draw with Everton.
Solskjaer rested Jadon Sancho, Paul Pogba and Cristiano Ronaldo, while Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Luke Shaw returned at full-back, as United dropped more points at home.
Sancho and Ronaldo were introduced in the 56th minute with United 1-0 up and Pogba came on in response to Andros Townsend's 65th-minute equaliser.
The recalled Anthony Martial scored his first club goal in eight months and Solskjaer felt his team selection was vindicated, despite the final score.
"You make decisions throughout a long, long season and you've got to manage the players' workload," Solskjaer said. "And the decision was, for me, the correct one today.
"Anthony Martial did well, scored a good goal, Edinson [Cavani] needed minutes, he got an hour, could have had a goal, a great cross and a great chance for him, we have to make those decisions sometimes."
United have taken one point from their last six in the league at Old Trafford and Everton were denied a potential late winner as Yerry Mina was marginally offside when he tapped in Tom Davies's cross.
Townsend's leveller came from a United corner and their defenders failed to dispossess Demarai Gray or Abdoulaye Doucoure, who worked the ball to Townsend.
"We did have enough players behind the ball," Solskjaer added. "We make a couple of bad decisions which cost us in those 10 seconds or whatever, and that counter-attack worked.
"We worked well enough behind the ball but should have dealt with the danger better."
United resume their season after the October internationals at Leicester City on October 16.
