When the dust settles on Manchester United's UEFA Super Cup defeat to Real Madrid, it is unlikely too much will be made of Marouane Fellaini's impact on proceedings at the Philip II Stadium in Macedonia.
There were some outstanding individual displays - Real's Isco and Gareth Bale among them, and had the latter's shot been a couple of inches lower and not crashed against the bar, Jose Mourinho's men would have been 3-0 down and facing a long night in Macedonia.
For the Reds, new signing Nemanja Matic looked perfectly at home in such exalted company and made a mockery of his apparent lack of match sharpness.