i believe pog is the stronger rider.
however, whether he was actually stronger yesterday -- not sure, tbh. Rog, i have to admit, did an amazing ride.
now, rog did do 20kms on his own before getting help. however, BEFORE that he was being pulled along by teammates and astana. meanwhile pog pulled almost alone (apart from a brief respite from hirshi). so before rog di his massive ITT pull, pog had already been hitting the wind for many KMs. Pog then got minimal assistance the rest of the way. so it is not clear who between the two spent the most of the time in the wind...
if anything, I would lean towards pog.
kind of a serious fail in team tactics.
had pog simply been allowed to follow rog, he could have sat on while rog had to make the difference with mcnulty at first. or rog may have not pushed on as much knowing pog was simply sitting there fearing that he was opening himself up for a later counter from pog...
I also can't say who was stronger yesterday. Like I said many times, the two are pretty evenly matched at the moment. My personal opinion is that Pogi is a little better in races with high attrition such as was Tirreno stage 5 and yesterday's stage for example, but as we saw, Roglič is no slouch in this kind of race either.
But it's not true that Pogi pulled almost alone before Roglič did his massive 20km TT. Pogi pulled for maybe 1km on the flat in the valley, but Hirschi was immediately called back and then it was him who pulled till the beginning of the final climb around 48km to go. Then it was Pogi who went on the front and pulled on the climb for about 1.5km until McNulty couldn't follow anymore. Then it was Chaves and Yates who went at the front and Pogi was following them for about one km or so. Proof:
View: https://youtu.be/28LsxlQHdDQ
Later especially Yates gave some longer turns towards the top of the Krabelin climb and on the false flat afterwards. Like I said, all of Yates, Chaves, Landa, Bilbao, Vansevenant, Valverde gave their contribution. Pogi did the vast majority of work, there's not denying that, but he was never pulling for more than a couple of minutes straight. On the other hand Roglič was for almost 30min straight in the wind without looking back.
In the last 25km Pogi did more work than Rogla, I agree with that. Both groups were still taking turns but Pogi was doing by far the longest ones, while the trio in front of the race were working pretty well together. On the last climb it was mainly Gaudu who pushed the pace as we saw and Roglič was following him for the vast majority of the climb.