Race for UECL top scorer prize : Chelsea product Abraham tells teammates to cage Dessers

The race for the UEFA Europa Conference League top scorer prize will go down to the wire as Feyenoord face off with Jose Mourinho's AS Roma at National Arena - Tirana.

Feyenoord are the top-scoring team in the competition with 28 goals, ahead of their opponents on Wednesday night Roma, who have netted on 27 occasions.

Feyenoord's Nigeria international striker Cyriel Dessers is top of the UEFA Europa Conference League goalscoring charts with ten goals to his name, one more than his rival , Chelsea academy product Tammy Abraham.

Abraham has pleaded with his teammates to help him finish as the top goalscorer of the competition by stopping Dessers from finding the back of the net tonight.

Asked if Abraham has asked him to stop Dessers, Roma central defender Gianluca Mancini said  at the pre-match press conference : "Not just me, but the whole team. Defending is done as a team, it’s just that we are the nearest ones to the opposition attackers.

"I’ve studied him, I’ve watched him and he’s a good forward. We have a better one, Tammy. As I’ve said, I hope that tomorrow at 11pm he is the top goalscorer in this competition."

Dessers is aiming to write his name in the Nigerian history books as the first player to win the top scorer award of a European club competition including the Champions League and Europa League.

Ifeanyi Emmanuel

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