I believe his pre match comments were an attempt at mind games - post match fair enough. It was designed to add more pressure on us - he even went and said about the pressure being on us after too.
Of course he did as it plays into his pre match comments - win win for him. We'll never know but Schteve is the sort of fella that thinks he's being clever in his pre match comments... And you believe everything a man on the TV tells you ;)