“The referee was happy for their boy to take the tackle on the touchline, but then he gets booked.

“But considering the challenges that went on during the game, I think the booking was quite petty.

“I don’t think anybody was complaining or anything.

“The boy turned around, went for the ball and the lad’s head was down and then Felli pokes it away.

“He is disappointed and so are we.”

But Moyes accepts that Fellaini, who has only taken 18 games to get to 10 bookings and has the most yellow cards in the Premier League, has to take some responsibility for improving his disciplinary record.

“It was probably an example of the learning process that Fellaini is going through and he will learn,” said Moyes.

“It hasn’t been today that has got him the suspension, though. He’s had bookings in other games. Today is one of the reasons, but he’s had other bookings.”

Fellaini did, however, get a break from the officials on his goal when he headed in Leighton Baines’s cross after being in an offside position when it came in.

“To balance it up, I also think they got our first goal wrong,” added Moyes.

“I want to make sure I am saying it both ways.”

The manager also revealed that Arteta slammed in his third goal in his last two league games despite being ill ahead of the game.

The Spaniard managed to play 90 minutes before being replaced by Jack Rodwell in injury time.

“He came in at 1pm and he was ill,” said Moyes. “We actually decided to put him in the warm-up, to see how he went.

“If he didn’t make it, we would have pulled him out. But I made the decision to put him out there. He really wasn’t well and if we had got a third goal, I would have taken Mikel off a lot sooner.”

Moyes also confirmed that Jospeh Yobo will be back in training this week after being out since he injured his hamstring against Chelsea three weeks ago.