“My ambition is to win all these races. But I'm taking it step by step,” declared the Slovenian at a press conference on Friday in Bilzen, near Liège, two days before the Ardennes “Monument”.
“Facing Mathieu (van der Poel), it’s going to be a great fight. But the race will be very open because it won't just be the two of us. Mattias Skjelmose and Stevy (Stephen) Williams, among others, if they recover from the hell of La Flèche (Wallonne), will also be formidable,” explained the leader of the UAE team.
Regarding the scenario of the Doyenne of the classics, Pogacar had fun predicting “an attack with Mathieu 100 kilometers from the line”, joking about the latest “titanic” performances of the Dutchman, winner in recent weeks of the Tour of Flanders ( attack 44 km from the line) and Paris-Roubaix (after a solitary raid of 60 km) and which “Pogi” judges “in the form of his life”.