The steamroller of UAE and the overwhelming superiority of Pogacar begins to make their rivals desperate: “The day they don’t want to win, we will try to take advantage of it, they are superior”

UAE Team Emirates It is the best team in the world and Pogacar the best cyclist in the world. It is known that they are superior, but sometimes this hegemony begins to despair. He UAE team has won two of the three stages that have been held in the legs of Isaac del Toro (2nd in Montjuïc) and Pogacar (today in Les Angles).

Besides, Pogacar leads the race and the regularity classification, Del Toro that of young people and UAE that of the teams and today, when they wanted, they have put on the roller mode, you can also call it a steamroller, to destroy the peloton, exhaust their rivals and make then Pogacar finished off in Les Angles.

“They have achieved it, like this on the first hard day of this Tour. Happy, I lack a little explosiveness, but we are there. Surprised by UAE’s tactics? They are not an ambitious team, they always go out for everything and if they think they can win they will always do it like any of us would do. Today was harder than we imagined,” he said Juan Ayuso at the finish line, who highlighted that today’s stage had been much harder than expected.

to which Raúl García Pierna, Movistar Team rider who has been in the breakaway, added: “I feel good and the team has done a great job. We thought the breakaway could come, although in the end I was quite tired. We know that UAE wants to win everything and we can’t do anything other than try and the day they don’t want to win try to take advantage of it. They are the strongest, not just Pogacar and Del Toro, the entire team. We go the whole breakaway in relays and we are not capable, nor can we do anything else. It is the strength we have and they are superior.”