“Listen, what happens on the field stays on the field. I’m not someone who attacks someone off the field,” Ibrahimovic told the BBC at Old Trafford.
“You have the TV, you can see the images. I jump up and jump high and he (Mings) jumps into my elbow. It is not my intention to hurt someone.”
Mings appeared to stamp on Ibrahimovic’s head with his left foot as he jumped over him late in the first half and the Swedish striker’s elbow moments after looked to be a retaliation.
But Ibrahimovic said: “I didn’t know about the stamping on the head. If it was him, it was him.”
Ibrahimovic had previously been booked, but despite referee Kevin Friend speaking at length to Ibrahimovic and United captain Wayne Rooney, the former Paris Saint-Germain striker was allowed to stay on the pitch.
“I don’t think the referee saw Tyrone Mings try and stamp on Zlatan’s head,” Rooney told Sky Sports.
“In football that’s wrong. Everyone likes going into tackles, but to try and stamp on a player’s head is wrong. There’s no place for it and I’m sure there will be punishment for it after the game.”
Mings said he had not deliberately stamped on Ibrahimovic’s head, having escaped punishment over the incident.
“Not at all. I would never do that. That’s not in my game,” he said. “Hard and fair is how I like to tackle, but off-the-ball stuff like that isn’t part of my game.”
On Ibrahimovic’s apparent retaliation, Mings said: “There was maybe an elbow when the ball came in after. I didn’t see it, I felt it.”
United manager Jose Mourinho refused to discuss the altercations between Ibrahimovic and Mings, but said of Mings: “He knows what he did.”
