MVDP doesn’t seem quite the rider he was a few weeks ago. I think his form is tailing off. He looked like he went deep today and still couldn’t bring Asgreen back.
He has bigger fish to fry. He's establishing a pattern where he goes deep a week before a major race to get his form where he wants it. If he really wanted to win today he'd have got Vermeersch to close the gap to Asgreen ahead of the final climb, instead he did a load of work in the chasing group whilst Vermeersch sat in the wheels.
I hope you’re right and he’s saving some legs to put on a show next week but he was pulling faces at one point which suggested he quite fancied the win.
He has bigger fish to fry. He's establishing a pattern where he goes deep a week before a major race to get his form where he wants it. If he really wanted to win today he'd have got Vermeersch to close the gap to Asgreen ahead of the final climb, instead he did a load of work in the chasing group whilst Vermeersch sat in the wheels.