Nah, if you watched him carefully, you noticed that he was winning the ball in 4 out of 5 attempts and that 5th attempt was usually a soft foul. The refs couldn't give him many cards even if they wanted to.
I'm much more worried about Poulsen. No matter how careful he is the Italian refs will be very harsh on him, imo.
Italians holde a grudge against him and he comes with a reputation of a troublemaker. They'll certainly try to tell him who's the boss on the pitch.