The Blues boss reckoned Laurent Blanc’s outfit were an even rougher lot than League Two side Shrewsbury, who his team beat in the Capital One Cup this season
The French giants are at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night and face a tough task going through to the last eight of the Champions League, having drawn the first leg 1-1 in Paris.
Mourinho claimed he had been shocked at the dirty tactics of PSG in France.
“I was surprised in that game,” he said. “Because a team with fantastic players was the team with a record number of fouls.
“It was the team making foul after foul, it was the team which stopped Eden Hazard with fouls all the time.
“It was the team attacking the man in possession of the ball with two or three players with some very aggressive actions, a team where even a player like Zlatan Ibrahimovich, a typical attacking player came back when they lost the ball and attacked Hazard from behind when we were counter attacking.
“I thought an English team would never be surprised by aggression, because aggression we have in our country.
“This season we've played against sides form the Championship in the cups, against teams from League One, and Shrewsbury from League Two, but the most aggressive team was PSG.
“For me, that was a real surprise. With players of such quality, I was expecting more football and less aggression.”
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