Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount was pleased with his personal campaign last season.
Mount's goal involvements (goals and assists) in all competitions have jumped from 13 to 17 to 29 in the past three seasons. No player scored or assisted more in the Premier League this term for the Blues, his tallies in both categories taking him into a select group of five Chelsea players to have racked up double figures for both in a Premier League campaign.
It is his goal-creating in particular that has seen the sharpest rise in efficiency, from five assists in all competitions in 2019/20 to 16 this term, and Mount admits that area of his game has received specific attention.
"It's a massive focus of mine when I set goals at the beginning of a season," said Chelsea's Player of the Season. "I've always looked to do that and to get double figures in both is obviously very difficult. It's not an easy thing to do so I'm pleased.
"I focus in on where I can improve, which is the assists side, because I've naturally got goals in me. If I can get forward and arrive later into the box, as a midfielder I feel like I can score goals, if I'm working in training on the techniques as well.
"Assists can be a bit harder at times. It helps when you take set-pieces because it's a big part of the game. You always see people asking whether set-pieces are an assist or not, but when you put the ball in the right position for your team-mate to score then it's an assist.
"Nowadays when you look at the big, big games – the finals and semi-finals – how many goals are scored from set-pieces? It's massive and it can have a big effect on the game, so I've focused on that and then just tried to add more assists as well."
On the season, Mount reflects, "One week we're playing away at Luton, the next we're playing at Wembley. Then we're at the Bernabeu, then we're back at Wembley, before going away somewhere else! It's a lot of games and a lot of travelling but it's what we do. This is our job and we have nothing to complain about.
"Throughout the season, it's been up and down but if you look back at what we've achieved, we won the Super Cup at the beginning of the season and we won the Club World Cup in the middle of the season."
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