Chelsea boss Frank Lampard insists Mason Mount deserved to start in defeat at Manchester United.
Lampard defended Mount at today's Super Cup pre-match presser.
He said, I pick the best team to win the game, regardless of age. Mount deserves his chance on merit, I won't fear to play young players. In terms of how we set up, I really liked some of our aggressive off the ball work. We have to be adaptable and respect the strengths of our opponents. There may be subtle changes of our approach.
I will have no fears to play players because of their age. They will always have a chance. We won the ball back a lot versus United and it was more we didn't finish the chances we got that we lost the game."
He added: With Mason Mount, I don't like to compare, particularly with myself, I can talk about him myself and he has a great work ethic and it's important about how we want to play. Scoring goals he will step up levels as he develops, I'm a huge fan of his."
