"Pogacar blew up the team for three days and Mas did not win"

Pascual MomparlerThe Spanish cycling coach, considers that the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar “tired the team in the early stages without poetry or reason” and the loss of his lead in Granon to Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark was due to the runner’s fault rather than his training.

“Pogacar spent too much on the team in the early stages, without rhyme or reason, he blew it up for 3 days. Then they had problems with Covid, but if the yellow jersey was lost it was because of him, because he accelerated, attacked and paid. He didn’t see Jumbo’s maneuver. It was another mistake for him than the team, ”Momparler told the SER.

The national coach stressed Pogacar’s conditions, which he has known since his time under 23, and considered that he should interpret Jumbo’s work “to find fault.”

“He saw himself as superior. He was a rider who had already succeeded in our under -23s races with ease. He won us a Tour del Porvenir with no partner to take him a bottle, and the Carrera de la Paz. Then as a professional in his first Vuelta he was third and won three stages.He launched himself into fame. He has never lost a race and he lost to Granon. You also need to know that the rival is preparing and looking for mistakes“, he pointed out.

Momparler considers that “there is still a Tour”, and bet on Vingegaard, who “ran very well and knew how to fully analyze Granon’s stage with his team, which gave them great results”.

about the performance of Enrique More on the Tour, Momparler thinks “he should win on a stage”, though the team’s need for points to avoid abandonment on the World Tour could condition him.

“Enric Mas is a great man and a great cyclist, but he is not a winner. We are in a time when we have no “goal”. Enric has to win a stage so he can see that he can be there, which is not that difficult. I see your Movistar with a calculator for not going down, getting caught with tweezers, and having to take points, ”he explains.