Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount admits growing up admiring Manchester United striker Cristiano Ronaldo.

Mount has revealed the influence Cristiano Ronaldo had on him as a player.

"I think everyone has seen the video of when I was younger basing my free kick off him," he said over the weekend. "I always watched him very closely when he was at United as a young kid. I loved the way he played, his free kicks.

"I'm a massive Pompey fan, so I went to the game when they played at Old Trafford and he scored that free-kick against David James. I was actually at the game, in the corner so I saw it first hand and I think after that I kind of fell in love with the technique and what he'd done and him as a player.

"So I always try to look at and work out, what can I do, to put it into my game? But now to play against him and be up against him is the journey that you go on from watching someone in the stands as a fan and then to being on the same pitch and playing against them. It's a crazy journey and yeah, that's why I love football so much."