‘Primoz Roglic didn’t look particularly comfortable’ – Dan Lloyd on lack of ‘fireworks’ at Stage 15 finale

Primoz Roglic “didn’t look particularly comfortable” according to Eurosport's Dan Lloyd as the three-time La Vuelta champion struggled to make big inroads into Remco Evenepoel on Stage 15. Jumbo-Visma's Roglic was only able to drop Evenepoel in the final kilometre of the special category climb to Alto Hoya de la Mora, gaining 15 seconds on the red jersey. Ad As a result, Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl's Evenepoel leads his main rival by 1’34” going into the final week with a rest day on Monday.

Vuelta a EspañaOpinion: Why Roglic may have missed his chance to take control of La Vuelta3 MINUTES AGO “I’m not sure he [Roglic] was capable of attacking earlier,” said Lloyd on Eurosport's The Breakaway. “We were trying to assess Roglic’s body language to wonder whether or not he was about to go on the attack. The way I saw him, I didn’t think he looked particularly comfortable.

“It might just be that he went through a bad patch because they did really try at the foot of the Sierra Nevada climb hoping to expose a weakness in Remco Evenepoel but the Belgian showed pretty immediately that actually today he was back towards his best. “He was more than capable of responding to attacks. On the gradients that you have towards the top of this climb there’s so much advantage to being sat on the wheel.

“We saw a lot of the time the riders were in the big ring so it could’ve been a risky move for Roglic to go much earlier in case Evenepoel just sat on him and he cracked himself. “So he’s chipped away at it a bit more. We’ve still got a week of this race to go so maybe not the fireworks we were expecting and part of that was just down to how well Evenepoel bounced back from what was a disappointment yesterday, without being a disaster.” Roglic