Mount accuses Tuchel of playing 'mind games' with him after Norwich hat-trick

Mason Mount reckons Thomas Tuchel was playing mind games with him ahead of Chelsea’s clash with Norwich City, and it worked, as the England international scored a hat-trick in a resounding 7-0 win.

It was top vs bottom of the Premier League at Stamford Bridge and that’s exactly what it looked like as the Blues mauled the Canaries in brutal fashion.

Mount opened the scoring after just eight minutes and completed it after 91, having scored a retaken penalty six minutes earlier.

Callum Hudson-Odoi, Reece James and Ben Chilwell were also on the score sheet, as was Norwich’s Max Aarons with an own goal, as Chelsea clearly did not miss injured forwards Romelu Lukaku and Timo Werner.

It was put to Mount by BT Sport that Tuchel had labelled him ‘mentally tired’ ahead of the game, and the midfielder feels it may have been a ploy to get the best out of him.

‘Maybe it’s a bit of mind games and I need to show him that I’m not (mentally fatigued),’ said Mount.

‘You know me I always want to play every game. But sometimes you’ve got to take a backwards step but I feel today and over the last couple of games I feel at it and ready to play and I’m absolutely buzzing for today.’

The 22-year-old hadn’t scored for club or country since May when he netted in the Champions League semi-final win over Real Madrid.

However, he says he has not been worried about his dry spell, confident that he has been getting into the right positions and that goals would come – which they now have.

‘I’ve been waiting a long time,’ he said. I felt like you can put pressure on yourself, I always was getting in the positions to score I just wasn’t putting it in the back of the net.

‘I thought there’s going to be a game that it’s going to come off and obviously today was the day.’

Chelsea extend their lead at the top of the table with the battering of Norwich in west London to four points, with Liverpool playing Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday and Manchester City travelling to Brighton on Saturday evening as they try to cut the gap.

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