Mason Mount has hailed his Chelsea team-mate Hakim Ziyech over his dazzling display against Sheffield United on Saturday.

He said: “He’s a brilliant player. He knows what he can bring to the team with his quality left foot.

“The gaffer always speaks about having the competition to keep our standards high, and Hakim is a world-class player. We want players of that calibre coming in.

“To have 14 different scorers has been brilliant. We need that threat from set-pieces, which I don’t think we really had last season.

“This season we’ve definitely worked on that and it’s been working and to have that many scorers gives us a different dimension to our game and teams definitely fear us more.

“There are some great left-footed players in the Premier League including Gareth Bale, one of the best players in world football, and we always think of the sweet left foot as a culture.

“Hakim has brought a different element to our game, but I don’t just want to lean on that because his work ethic off the ball makes him a very complete player.

“He gives us an extra edge and a different threat in terms of coming on to his left foot off the right side.

“He exudes confidence, how much he wants the ball, and he wants to be the important player who makes the assist, and that has been a big plus.”