Jonathan Panzo on facing Neymar and Mbappe, learning from Fabregas and Falcao since leaving Chelsea

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Jonathan Panzo was ready for a challenge. It’s exactly why, just 12 months after becoming a World Cup winner with England Under-17s, he opted to leave Chelsea behind and head to France.

And challenges don’t come much bigger than the one he faced on October 24, 2020 - trying to stop Neymar and Kylian Mbappe. Panzo, 20, played the full 90 minutes for Dijon in an eye-opening 4-0 defeat at the Parc des Princes earlier this season.

Whilst many could have been disheartened by the result, he emerged with a clear sense of perspective and focus on what is required to make it to the very top. “It was a great challenge,” he recalls. “It sets the level. “That’s the kind of level I want to be playing at, but from my level to that level, there’s a big