Source: Liverpool_Echo
Marouane Fellaini winning over match officials: Everton FC latest
MAROUANE FELLAINI believes he has finally won over referees in English football, despite picking up an undeserved second yellow card of the season against Stoke.
The distinctive Belgian was booked by referee Andre Marriner at Goodison yesterday, despite nobody else in the stadium spotting an offence.
But Fellaini believes the decision was an exception, after a traumatic debut campaign which saw him cautioned a dozen times and singled out on national television.
'I don't think I deserved the booking today, everyone could see that,' he said, 'but it was only my second yellow card this season.
'I haven't changed my game. I'm still exactly the same player, but maybe I've become a bit wiser and maybe the refs know me a bit more now too.
'What I have learned is that I used to pick up a lot of yellow cards when I was running back trying to stop teams on the counter attack. I would foul players trying to get back into the game, but I have cut that out.'
Fellaini completed the full 90 minutes yesterday, despite a painful problem with his wisdom teeth.
The Belgian will undergo surgery today, before joining up with his international team-mates for a double-header with Turkey and Estonia.
He has been playing with the problem for three weeks now and explained: 'It has been painful. I got an infection in my throat which made it worse, but you get on with it for the team.
'We should have scored one or two in the first half today. We put in a good performance in the first 45 minutes, but maybe we went down a notch in the second half.'
