Matthews left empty handed after poor positioning
Michael Matthews and his Sunweb team were left empty-handed after an aggressive finale at Milan-San Remo. Matthews had gone in with high hopes after his podium finish of two years ago but missed the split when Peter Sagan attacked and then found himself out of position in the sprint for the minor places.
“The goal was for Michael to follow any attack on the Poggio and we worked towards that throughout the race,” explained directeur sportif Marc Reef. “Everything went well until that moment, when Michael wasn’t in the position to follow the attack that was launched. Although we didn’t get a result today we can all be proud of how well we carried out our plan.”
The Sunweb team was an ever-present force at the front of the bunch in the final kilometres of Milan-San Remo. Søren Kragh Andersen, Simon Geschke and primarily Tom Dumoulin took it in turns to up the pace on both the Cipressa and the Poggio.
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“We tried to make it hard for the sprinters, otherwise we would have ridden up there easily, and it would’ve come down to a huge bunch sprint,” said Matthews. “Our plan was to get Søren and Simon at the bottom of the Cipressa and really push it, then when on the Poggio to have Tom pull to make it hard for the sprinters. They all did a really good job. I had really good legs today and their work really helped me to be able to keep the high speed and try to zap the sprinters.
“In the finale, I was boxed in so I couldn’t sprint. We did everything that we could and it was a really strong effort from all of the team today.”
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