The 22-year-old England international, who has been outstanding throughout the 2020/21 campaign, scored in a convincing 2-0 win at Stamford Bridge as Thomas Tuchel’s side progressed to the final. In the post-match interview with pundit Alex Scott, Mount mentioned a certain comment from Los Blancos midfielder Kroos.
Mount said: “I saw one of their players [Kroos] saying he doesn’t lose sleep over any of our players. Maybe he should lose sleep over us as a team.” The context behind those comments come from earlier this week, when the German international was asked who he believes will be the most difficult player to face when they come up against Chelsea.
“The most difficult player to face at Chelsea? No player has ever taken my sleep in 15 years.” Kroos said. “They play well as a team but I can’t tell you a name.”
Mount was overjoyed by team’s victory over Real Madrid and was happy that the Blues were in the final. He spoke from the heart in an emotional post-match interview.
“I can’t put it into words, really, at the moment.” the 22-year-old said. “But it was a great performance tonight, it was a tough, tough game. You know what they’re like, they’re going to come and they’re going to give it everything.
“I thought we were brilliant, we worked hard. We probably should have had about five. I should have had one about 20 minutes before I scored. The most important thing is that we won tonight. But it’s not over, there’s one more game left.”
He added: “We gave it everything. We had that desire, we wanted to win. You could see in the first-half we had a couple of opportunities where we won the ball back and could’ve countered and scored, but we didn’t take them.
“But we got the one at the end so it doesn’t matter.”
Chelsea will face Manchester City in the Final of Champions League in Istanbul on 29th May.
