Chelsea’s Mason Mount gives verdict on Premier League top four race

Mason Mount insists Chelsea can still finish in the top four this season because the race for Champions League place is “very open”. Chelsea are stuck in 11th place after six games. The last defeat for Chelsea was on Sunday, as they lost to Liverpool with a score of 2-1. Mount said: “Look at the table, how many good teams there are - it’s very open and obviously we are looking to secure that top position so we just need to keep working hard. We know how difficult this league is. “We need to stay concentrated and switched on. We need to keep working hard and hopefully build these three points. “Of course [we need to win at home], but if you look at the games we have had we can take positives from every game we have had. We need to win games at home, that’s a big focus. “We are doing well away and now the focus is building that fortress at home and when teams come here they know it will be a tough game. "We are going through a spell when we are getting little bits here and there wrong and we are getting punished for it. So I think we have always got to stay positive. “We are positive straight after the game, focusing now on our next two games, at home and wanting to win them. Look, they are difficult games, but I think once you get that first home win and get that momentum building, then hopefully we can carry that on.” However, Mount was honest about Chelsea’s failings. Mount said: “It is set-pieces that are causing some trouble. Liverpool scored two and when you go 2-0 down then it is quite tough to get back into the game. I thought we were at the end but if you switch off at set-pieces at this level then you get punished. “It happened twice so that’s something we will look at and we have been looking at. We need to keep working on it. “I thought they didn’t create much in open play. So I think we just need to be concentrated when the ball goes out of play so we are switched on and ready for anything to happen.”

Chelsea boss Frank Lampard says VAR ‘kills the moment’