Mason Mount has enjoyed a number of incredible highs during his three seasons in the Chelsea first team. Yet the final weeks of the 2021/22 campaign delivered one of his most painful lows: a crucial penalty miss in the FA Cup final shootout defeat to Liverpool at Wembley.
"It is not a nice feeling, especially not in the final. I can tell you that," says the Chelsea academy graduate, who cuts a relaxed figure at the Blues' team hotel in Los Angeles. "You can always practice penalties on the training pitch but as soon as you get close to it you can’t match that feeling.
"I obviously put it to the left and the keeper went the right way. We know what happened. Obviously, as soon as that happens you are gutted. You are in a final and you want to win things and it didn’t go our way.
