It was quite unfortunate, almost uncomfortable. But Fellaini's costly mistakes aren't the problem - or at least source of it, they're symptoms of Manchester United managers utilising his profile of player in the first place.
Now why that is, is a little mind boggling for me. For such a tall dude he's turd in the air, he almost always remains planted to the ground looking to chest it down. And then, he pretty much sacrifices the chemistry of our entire midfield with his slow, clumsy, laboured approach. If we can all see it, surely our managers can - yet he still gets in the team. If anything, it speaks volumes of what has been the state of our midfield for the past few years. That rather than playing football on the ground, we've relied on knocking it long and attempting to play the second balls.
Playing him defensively sort of makes sense, but only if you accept that with the ball on the ground you'd be playing with 9 outfield players and a massive bulldozer that'll be looking to break up play by running into people. So really, still doesn't make that much sense.
My conclusion: we are living in a horrible fecked up matrix.