The Dutch ace came off the bench with five minutes left on the watch at Stamford Bridge and United leading 1-0.
But he’s been blamed for gifting Chelsea the chance to equalise late on when misplacing a pass intended for morgan Schneiderlin.
The Blues broke forward in numbers and Diego Costa rounded David de Gea to bag an injury time leveller .
Rooney admits the 22-year-old made the wrong call, but refused to blame him for United dropping two crucial points.
“I think we're all disappointed,” the club captain said.
“Memphis is a fantastic player and that happens, we all give bad passes away.
“A lot of things happened from when you give the ball away to when they've scored the goal, so I don't think we can stand here and blame Memphis.
“I think there were other things which happened and why they've scored.”
Rooney added: “It's a disappointing result in the end".
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