Chelsea have been challenged by Mason Mount to ‘achieve greatness’ by toppling favourites Manchester City in the Champions League final later this month.
The Blues produced a superb display to dismantle Real Madrid at Stamford Bridge as Timo Werner and Mount’s goals sealed a 2-0 victory (3-1 agg).
With his goal, Mount became the second-youngest Englishman to score in a Champions League semi-final.
The Blues will now take on Pep Guardiola’s City in Istanbul on Saturday, May 29, and Mount is adamant the fast-developing Blues can lift the title in Turkey.
“We are in the Champions League final and we have got to finish it off,” said Mount. “We need to keep going and we can achieve greatness.
“It was a big two games to push through and beat this team, one of the best in the world, and we’ve done it.
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“Now we need to do it again.
“It’s not over, there’s one more game left.
“We are going to give it everything. We are going into it with full confidence, like we have with this whole road getting there.”
Timo Werner headed in from a yard to put Chelsea into an early lead on Wednesday night, after Kai Havertz has dinked the ball onto the crossbar.
Chelsea spurned a host of chances to cement their dominance over Zinedine Zidane’s Madrid and with each passing opportunity the nerves grew of a comeback from the visitors.
But then – after 85 minutes – Mount turned in Christian Pulisic’s cross, to spark jubilant Chelsea celebrations.