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Chelsea ace Mount credits coach Edwards for goalscoring improvement

Chelsea ace Mason Mount says assistant coach Joe Edwards has been key to his improving goalscoring this season.

Mount has scored four goals in four recent Prem games.

Mount told the club's website: "I'm always someone who wants more and I'm never content so I'm happy to be in good form in front of goal but I want more. I want double figures as quickly as possible! I think I've matched what I had last season in the Premier League already so it's about now pushing even more, wanting to score more.

"I'd put it down to a lot of work with [assistant coach] Joe Edwards. I've worked closely with him recently around how to get in the box more. We looked at my numbers from last season to the beginning of this season and how I wasn't getting into the box as much.

"He said to me 'you need to start being more of a regular threat and getting in there because when you do get the opportunity to score, most of the time you will put it away with the quality you have, so if you get in there you'll be able to score more.' We spoke a lot about it and a couple of games later I'm getting goal after goal so I do give a lot of credit to him for that because it opened my eyes a bit and showed me that I need to push and get into the box more.

"He showed me a couple of clips as well from the games where we're on the attack and I'm not busting a gut to get into the box. I'm kind of hanging on the edge of the area but most of the goals scored in the Premier League, and definitely for us, come from inside the penalty box. There are not many scored from outside so I've realised that and really pushed and now I'm getting the rewards from it."

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