Brisbane coach John Aloisi hits out at simulation as Roar prepare for Bruno Fornaroli and Melbourne City

Fornaroli, the competition’s reigning Golden Boot, will lead a star-studded City attack that includes Socceroos stalwart Tim Cahill at Suncorp Stadium.

Aloisi is wary of the threat Uruguayan Fornaroli poses with both his goal-scoring ability and use of his body when challenged by defenders.

“We know that Fornaroli likes to pin players around the box,” Aloisi said.

“What I mean by pinning (is) he actually holds you. I don’t even know if that’s allowed, but he does, and uses his body well.

“We’ve worked on how we can defend against that, and hopefully the players will be able to defend against it.”

Aloisi hoped “good referee” Peter Green would be quick to act on any gamesmanship.

“I know that in certain countries … they practice players to go down a little bit easier. That’s not in the Australian culture,­ we don’t want it in our game,” he said.

“A foul’s a foul but if someone just gets touched and goes down easy, I’m sure the referees are aware of it and will try to pick up on it. They want to stamp it out of our game because in the Australian culture we don’t like it, we don’t want it.

“Hard at the ball, yes … that’s the football games that we want to see.

“I’m not saying to be dirty, and I’m not saying to have players that are going down easy.

“If it’s someone’s that’s trying to get a foul, it should be a yellow card if he’s going down too easy … and then it’ll stop them next time, and if they do it again, it’s another yellow (and) then they’re red-carded.”

“It has to be a strong stance, and I’m sure the referees have been told there’ll be a strong stance.”

Originally published as Fornaroli threat has Roar on ‘pin’ alert