The strategies of Jumbo and Movistar in the hardest week

The last week of The return that begins this Tuesday has so many variables that team managers must analyze it as if they were facing a game of chess. With six stages ahead, of which two are high mountains (Lagos and Gamoniteiro), one is a classic-style trap in Mos and the final time in Santiago, nobody is clear on the tactic.. They all look at the Jumbo already Primoz Roglic as if he were the wearer of the red jersey … without wearing it. “Can we really forget about Odd Eiking and Guillaume Martin? “, he wonders Addy Engels, team manager of the winner of the last two rounds. And he clarifies that “he would not sign to get to the clock like this”, with the disadvantage that the Slovenian has of 1:36 with the Norwegian and 42 “with the French.

Roglic must “try to cut back” with the two cyclists who precede him … and defend himself from the two who follow him. “It seems that with More, Lopez and the rest, the time gap is good in the chrono, although at the end of a big one strange things always happen ”, analyzes Engels. The Spanish is 35 “behind the Slovenian. The Colombian, 1:28.

And what should be the attitude of the two leaders of the Movistar? “With the participation that there was in this Vuelta, being in the top-5 was a success and now we aspire to have two cyclists on the podium”, he analyzes Eusebio Unzué, manager of the Spanish team, who also knows that they have a “good chance” of winning the round, although he regrets reaching this outcome without a key player. “The low of Alejandro Valverde , especially for the mountains, we are going to notice it “, he adds Patxi vila, sports director of the telephone. “Every decision we make we have to think about it a lot,” he says. Although everyone expects the Spanish team to attack. “Man, you can’t win without attacking,” acknowledges Vila, but he knows that a wrong step or a poorly measured attack could have the consequence of “sacrificing one of the two leaders.”

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And it is that behind Roglic and the Movistar, it is Jack Haig. “If he is there, it is because he is almost as strong as we are,” says the Navarrese director. “And let’s not forget Egan Bernal and Yates. The Ineos should never be underestimated. Nobody thought that Froome could win the Turn 2018 and he got it, “he says Engels, who looks with respect to the two days of Asturian mountains, especially a Gamoniteiro Which seems “brutal” to him. “If cyclists make those stages tough, the differences can be huge,” he says. Enough to unload Roglic? Unzué is confident: “The race will give us a chance. You have to take advantage of it ”.

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