Milan-Sanremo 2025, Pogacar's conditions: "He's fine"

Joxean Matxin, sports director of UAE Team Emirates-XRG, takes stock of the Slovenian's situation after his fall at Strade Bianche 2025: "I don't know if he will show up at 100% in a race where different scenarios are possible anyway"

di GIUSY ANNA MARIA D'ALESSIO
20 March 2025
Tadej Pogacar (Ansa)

Tadej Pogacar (Ansa)

Rome, March 20, 2025 – Not only Jasper Phillipsen, fell yesterday at Nokere Koerse 2025 but still starting on Saturday: another favourite, if not the favourite par excellence, will show up at the Milan-Sanremo 2025 with several patches and dents. This is Tadej pogacar, which does not run from 2025 Roads, won despite a fall in the final part: since then very little is known about the Slovenian, before the very latest updates provided by the highest levels of theUAE Team Emirates-XRG.

Matxin's statements

The sports director talks about his protégé Joxean Fernandez Matxin, intercepted by the microphones of Relief. "After the accident he suffered for two days, but as time went by his condition improved. To be honest, I don't know if he's still in pain at the moment. We've spoken in the last few hours, but not about this situation, which will need to be evaluated better with the medical team and the coaches. I can't say that he'll be 100% fit on Saturday, but I know he's fine and that's also clear from the performances he's had recently and that he'll try to repeat on Saturday". So, pogacar there will be and probably also with 'bellicose' intentions: adversaries permitting, as a precaution of the same Matxin. "It will be a race of 290 km, over six hours long and with an average speed of 46 km/hThe strange thing is that such a race can be decided in the space of five minutes, during which all the runners can be on the same level: Tadej including. Just think about last year: fast runners like Jasper Phillipsen e Michael Matthews they resisted until the finish line and this year I don't exclude that it could happen with Filippo Gana. I think it is no surprise that all these runners I have mentioned, and more, could be in contention on the knoll".

Pogacar's training towards Milan-Sanremo 2025

In reality, everything suggests that on the part of pogacar an attack even already on the Cipressa. It was his teammate who let him know, and he has trained a thousand times, including the very last ones, Tim Wellens, who at the microphones de The last hour he did not expressly exclude a shot from his captain Cipressa. Between pre-tactics also to alarm the sprinters or reality there are the facts, which speak of many training sessions of the world champion together with his gregarious aimed precisely at refining the shooting phase on one of the symbolic climbs of the Very classic: it is possible that the role of last man could fall to Isaac Del Toro, which in the very recent Milan-Turin 2025 yesterday he showed that he has the good legs to make the difference. Whether for himself or for the sun king pogacar, we will see on Saturday: always assuming that the Slovenian really needs someone's support to try to add another race to his already very rich trophy cabinet.

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