I see Pep was asked in press conference by McDonnell , I think ,from the Daily Mirror about Solskjaer's comments to his players that he's preparing them for the "tactical fouling" by City players that occurs when they try to make a counter attack .Pep seemed shocked that he would make that assertion and says he has never told his players to tactically foul anyone in his career and asked the reporter how could it be ,if we ( City ) have 75% of the play , that tactical fouling could go on?
Later on he was asked again about being shocked and he said basically that he never never never prepared a team to play like that .Of course sometimes when the play is fast a player can act in that way but that "we don't do that " - (intentionally).
Then Pep was asked whether he was worried if this is a tactic to influence the referree and Pep replied " that is the reason" ( why Solskjaer said it) and he said that he will be banned if he says anything on referrees .
Pep remained so calm throughout and said basically that he wasn't worried about anything
" because we don't do that " (kind of tactic).
So ,mind games ahead of this one folks . Just be wary of all the tricks that will be thrown at us this evening. Pep certainly is .
