Yesterday was a quite short stage in wich they fly on the flat and they climbed Tourmalet, the only long and big mountain of the day nor very fast. That was very good for complete and explosive riders as Pogacar and no good for endurece climbers as Vingegaard.
Anyway, in a normal situation maybe Pogacar could have put 10 seconds to Vingegaard, but not more than a half minute.
Two factors, Pogacar IS obviously better than past year and Vingegaard IS obviously worse. It is amazing the good he his after his horrendous crash, but at least a point below his level.
And the other factor IS team, UAE this year is clearly better than Visma. Vingegaard doesnt have the powerfull attack of Pogacar, so to drop Pogacar need before a high pace of his team. He doesnt need his team to defend but yes to attack.
Today IS a longer stage and the last climb IS long and more temperature. Last km no so hard, that is better for Poggi, but in general better stage for Vingegaard. But looking at the difference yesterday IS difficult to think he can drop Pogacar, and more with Adam Yates over there.
Hope Quicky Step try something with Landa and Remco that make work UAE and make stage hard from long. The stage has lot of flat sections and there Remco IS the best.