Giro d'Italia 2023: 'They've got to learn' - Why Remco Evenepoel needs better support from Soudal-Quick Step

Soudal-Quick Step «have got to learn a lot from what happened» during Stage 4 of the Giro d'Italia if they are to give Remco Evenepoel the support he needs, according to the Eurosport experts. Evenepoel was in possession of the maglia rosa at the start of the 175 km route from Venosa to Lago Laceno, but ended up 28 seconds down on new leader Andreas Leknessund after his team «made some mistakes» in supporting him. Ad Adam Blythe, Robbie McEwen and Dan Lloyd assessed what happened after the day's racing and suggested how things should now play out — both for Evenepoel and for the rival teams.

Giro d'ItaliaHow to watch Stage 5 of Giro d'Italia as race moves to SalernoAN HOUR AGO «I think a lot of mistakes were made by that team, right from the get-go,» Blythe said on The Breakaway post-stage show. «You had a lot of riders committing full gas to bring a group of 14 riders back at one point. We were questioning why they were chasing it down because they were no real threat to the GC.

»Yet they were adamant about bringing it back and rode hard for at least 10, 15 minutes, then after that, more attacks came and that was in the first 20km of the stage and it went on for another 60km after that. So it was a knock-on effect and it got worse. «I think the other teams are going to be like this [rubbing their hands together] looking at that because if they make it hard at the start as they did today, if they try to isolate Remco from his team, I'm pretty sure they will know they can do it now.