Mount also accepts that the game is very different to the one he watched growing up.
Much has been made about how, even this season, long throw-ins and set-pieces have appeared to become even more important. With the Reds scoring both of our goals from Bruno Fernandes free-kicks at Selhurst Park, including Mason’s winner, his words appear even more prescient.
“I think, even since I made my debut in the Premier League, it’s changed,” he admitted. “There’s so much detail that goes into games now. So much detail off the pitch about analysing the opposition, if that’s corners and trying to exploit little weaknesses in the opposition or in formations and setting up against a team.
“There are little fine details that have big impacts in the games and you can see now the amount of set-pieces that are scored, it’s way higher than the rest of the years of the Premier League.
“It just shows you this, you have to be prepared for everything now and you have one set-piece goal that you concede could lose you the game. So you have to be ready.”
Read the Mason Mount interview in full in Thursday’s United Review, which is available to buy online and at Old Trafford.
