Stephen O'Donnell has given the inside scoop on how to keep Jack Grealish quiet - with a little help from Aston Villa teammate John McGinn.
O'Donnell told the Scotland National Team's #ScotlandHQ programme about keeping Grealish out of the match, including having a little nibble at him early on.
"By that stage of the game I was starting to get a wee bit fed up,” said O’Donnell of the booking he received for fouling Grealish.
“He was starting to play, he had just come on and was nice and fresh.
“Normally, fresh wingers come on and you feel a bit tired. I just thought: ‘I am going to need to hit him here.’ I was fed up of him trying to take the mickey out of me. I gave him a wee hit."
Jack Grealish
The mole inside the camp gave O'Donnell the upper hand in undermining a playmaker who has been the most-fouled player in the Premier League season just gone.
“Thankfully, John McGinn had given me some tips. He told me that if he comes on I need to get nibbling in his ear but don’t be critical, be complimentary.
"So the second he came on I was telling him how good looking he was, that I loved his calves and asking him how he got his hair to look like that.
"I was told if you kick him or get him really hard he gets back up and at you. Maybe that was the best way to get at Jack Grealish the other night.”
Easy as that.
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