UAE-Team Emirates thread

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It's impressive how UAE, especially del Toro and Pogi, are performing. Another great victory in Piedmont today.

What I don't understand is that the competitors can see how superior they are. Why do they help them so often to achieve further victories? I've seen it dozens of times this year and the result has always been the same. Today, Astana completely overestimated themselves. In the end, they didn't make it into the top 15, but they did help del Toro get ahead. Of course, Prestige and Astana are aiming for good places and need points. But you can't beat UAE like that at the moment. You have to try. But you can't help them. Otherwise, they have it far too easy at the moment.
 
It's impressive how UAE, especially del Toro and Pogi, are performing. Another great victory in Piedmont today.

What I don't understand is that the competitors can see how superior they are. Why do they help them so often to achieve further victories? I've seen it dozens of times this year and the result has always been the same. Today, Astana completely overestimated themselves. In the end, they didn't make it into the top 15, but they did help del Toro get ahead. Of course, Prestige and Astana are aiming for good places and need points. But you can't beat UAE like that at the moment. You have to try. But you can't help them. Otherwise, they have it far too easy at the moment.
Astana had Scaroni who had come off a series of good results and some wins. I don't think they got it right and they should have been more creative, but it wasn't a completely unfounded belief. Scaroni hasn't been at the level of Del Toro in these races but he hasn't been far off, and his performance in the European Champs was excellent