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Originally Posted by Ryun
Really interesting to see how little support UAE gave McNulty the last two days. Either couldn't or wouldn't.
He was mostly isolated in yellow even sending a rider back to help almeida on the climb yesterday leaving him alone to deal with Remcos inevitable surges.
Not sure quite yet what that says about the team.
Remco confuses me. he could really use an experienced GC rider on his team. He seems to need to prove he is the strongest rider all the time at every moment.
Im not sure over the course of the TdF he can simmer down long enough to make it thru without a sans jour from incessant small attacks.
But a great race to watch
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UAE have never excelled on the tactical front but, then again, they've never had to. Pogacar was usually strong enough and brilliant enough to sort himself out on his own.
That has changed in the last two years and one of the things I was looking forward to this season was to see how their tactics developed. So far, I'm not seeing much that has changed. Perhaps they need Pogacar in the race for everyone to get focused on one rider. They don't do well when they have two leaders in a race.
I would have thought P-Nice and T-A would have been great opportunities to work on this aspect of their game, but it seems not.