It also wasn't the best Alaphilippe. Etc. Also hard to have the legs in the end of the race when you waste energy for 6 hours being in bad position all the time.
Ofcourse he can win it. It's just very hard to pull off even when you're the best in the race. Ask Sagan. Also, GP Denain tells you very little.
That’s the whole point, you are proving my point. Furthermore, I just ask myself if the narrative for Alaf is that he is only at his best when he wins. Wasn’t at his best in SB, Tirreno, now MSR. Did he just not time his peak well or what?
As far as Mathieu goes, like I said, when he’s at his best you can easily tell. He’ll attack when he probably shouldn’t, pulls more than he should, and always rides proactively. Everything he didn’t do at MSR. At least that struck me as odd in his case. I suppose the same can be said for Alaf.
Point is, even when not at their best they were right there contesting the final. So as far as that goes MSR “suits” them all just fine.
Concerning GP Denain, like I said, the competition wasn’t comparable to Roubaix, but you can still tell how smooth someone looks riding the cobbles. He wreaked havoc in that race.
Lastly, surely GP Denain tells me more than having nothing else as a reference and thinking it’s not a great match.
Again, not saying he’ll win Roubaix now cause of GP Denain, just saying that at a lack of anything else as a reference, it looked like a match to me. He also seemed to really enjoy the cobbles. Let’s see what happens.
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