Mason Mount allowed his point to trail off before Fikayo Tomori picked up the cue to complete the midfielder’s sentence for him.

“Yeah, it was a Mason assist,” said Tomori as the two collapsed into laughter after Mount had set him up by answering a question on the FA Youth Cup final the Chelsea pair won together by saying: “I remember there was someone who put the ball in for Fik’s goal...”

That was in 2016 and, three years later, Mount and Tomori are now first-team regulars together in Frank Lampard’s energetic young side that are winning hearts and minds. Along with another Chelsea Youth Cup winner, Tammy Abraham, they were also part of Gareth Southgate’s last England squad.

It is an earlier Tomori goal that provides Mount’s first memory of the central defender after the duo started playing regularly together for Chelsea at the age of 14.

“There was a Premier League tournament, I think it was against Leicester, and Fik scored a free-kick,” said Mount. “In the academy, we had televisions everywhere and that goal was always being shown and replayed. You don’t often see a centre back coming up and whipping one into the net. I remember thinking ‘you do now!’”