Orica-GreenEdge line up at La Flèche Wallonne with Michael Albasini as its trump card for the 196km Belgian classic. Albasini was third at last year's race having also finished on the podium in 2012 when the Swiss rider was second.
From nine starts, Albasini has six top-ten results and sports director Matt White has assembled a team to challenge for another result atop the Mur de Huy as he explained.
"We've done well here over the last few years," said White. "Michael (Albasini) has repeatedly achieved good results here and he deserves to be our leader on Wednesday.
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"Michael works tirelessly for the team as we saw in Sunday's Amstel Gold Race, he is giving his all for 90% of our races for others and this is where he gets his chance to be the protected rider."
Albasini is yet to crack the top-ten in 2016 but started the 2015 edition of Flèche Wallonne with a similar list of early-season results to suggest he knows when to peak at the right time.
"We are going into the race with a strong team capable of performing well," added White. "It is always a hard race with an undulating parcours and one of the most challenging final kilometres of any race. We will be competitive and hopefully we can get Michael to where he needs to be to contest the finale."
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