​Lampard denies favouritism for Chelsea playmaker Mount | OneFootball

Chelsea manager Frank Lampard has laughed off suggestions of favouritism towards midfielder Mason Mount.

The Englishman is a youth team product at Chelsea, and was also with Lampard at Derby County two seasons ago.

Mount is often called 'Lampard's son' as a joke among supporters. But Lampard hit out at those claims in a press conference.

He told reporters: "I think we have a huge fanbase and the social media world has changed the way people critique football and it's easy for someone to sit on a phone and make harsh statements.

"With Mason, maybe he looks clean cut. I think he's doing an advert at the minute where he takes his top off, and that's about as edgy as Mason gets.

"He doesn't do triple stepovers or flicks over the back of his head, he makes really efficient, clean sharp passes. He presses as well as any midfield player I've worked with or played alongside.

"There are 100 things in his game that impress the managers that he works for. But because he doesn't have an Instagram reel of those kind of flicks and it's a different type of football, it's easy for people to bracket him off.

"Make no mistake, Mason Mount or any player in this squad will not be getting any favouritism when it comes to picking this squad."