Why did No One Help Joao Almeida? Volta a Catalunya 2023 Stage 2
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- Lanterne Rouge presents highlights of Stage 2 of Volta a Catalunya 2023
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1:52 me looking at LRs channel yesterday waiting for the stage recap to drop
If pogi ain’t there uae is just Movistar with different colors
So happy for Ciccone! Looking good in his build up for the Giro. Super consistent through Tirreno-Adriatico and a second place with third on mountains and 5th on GC and before that it was Comunidad Valencia, with a stage win and the points jersey, 2nd on GC and third in mountains classifications. On fire this season!
True!
Roglic Roglic Roglic ❤️
Almeida choo-chooing along. He's steady and persistent. No panic when he needed the bike change. Respect.
Thanks!
Who was the quickest on the climb. Almeida, of course. He almost lost one minute with that problem.
if he works on positioning and getting a kick to to attacks, no one catchs him. He can just go one his tempo after attacking.
Also his TT form ain't the best for this year's giro, its like 60k
UAE doing a movistar everytime theres no Pogi, they really dont like to support Almeida regardless if they are 1 or 10 min behind XD
Thanks for this video! The portuguese nation thanks you as well!
I feel like we always ask this question every year with almedia. He keep having bad luck or starts a climb looking weak, and all his teammates leave him only to have him finish top 8. lol. no one learns.
Bota Lume João!!! What a guy! 🔥
João é um guerreiro! Torço pelo sucesso dele. Saudações do Brasil.
UAE has such an amazing team but they just really have no idea what to do most of the time. Yates & Soler are looking strong for the Tour though!
They only seem to know what to do when Pogacar is riding, kinda weird
UAE is just Movistar with Pogacar who happens to win everything for them.
@@tobiasgreven254 Exactly. Its simple, when Pogi is there, you all work for him. When hes not there... uhh... nobody knows, do what you want 😂 All jokes aside I really dont understand why they dont fully go for Almedia here. Weird. Yates crashed, Soler is behind on GC and Almeida is prepping for Giro...
Almeida was left on the road by his teammates and still managed to be better than Soler 😬🫶
We also see Carapaz getting dropped even before his last man standing from the all day break teammate gets caught😂
@@willross5108 carapaz out of shape completely but yates and soler another story
He can take care of himself.
Well he should be
Soler isn’t a GC rider but Almeida is.
Anyway UAE team tactics is shocking. If it wasn’t for their one trick pony, it would be a third year team
@@laurarodriguezdiaz6489 Yes, I think so 🙂
Glad your enjoying live racing in person, enjoy it Patrick!
Its like if Pog is racing UAE is 100% on for him as it should.
If Pog is not racing is everyone for himself. O mean why would yates not drop to help Almeida.
Almeida is no team player either
@@endautrestermes When Almeida has to work for others, he does the job. Look at UAE Tour last year for example. See how he worked for Evenepoel at quickstep at Giro 2021, and Evenepoel at the time wasn’t even capable of battling for the Gc
@@endautrestermes top notch argument
Likely a DS decision. I don't like the choice much either but Yates is on decent form so maybe the team is going for a dual leadership type thing?
@@endautrestermes Maybe you don't watch cycling that much.
I love the little pat on the backside from Remco to say ‘come on, let’s go’
Happy to Chaves and Landa in a good early season form.
Landa looks to be in late-season form! he does this every race, he makes a push that goes nowhere and eventually finishes in 10th place on GC.
Thanks for this great summary
"Why did no one help Almeida?" Cause he rides for UAE and his name isn't pogacar.
Ciccone's big win! 👏👏👏
they thought the team car would give him the old water bottle boost for 5 k's.
You are número 1!! Gracias
Smart by roglic.
Roglic and Remco look almost equal in power. Perhaps good giro battle coming
Not bad for a 33 year old.
@@dennisdoucette9373 yes roglic is great, in fact roglic will go down as the greatest gc rider in entire history of our sport never to have won tour
Because it's Portuguese! BOOT LIGHT 💪🔥 João!
Such good video. Way to go
Soler should have waited....it looked like Yates was strong enough to go for the stage win!
In the end he was not
Soler keep thinking he a leader when he aint should be a team player and bring him back to the peloton
@@ion2763 Soler will never be a team player. Not even for pogacar he worked correctly in the last tdf.
@@PedroPrego Almeida is no team player either
@@ion2763 🤣 Solar being a team player. That's priceless.
I don't know much about team tactics, but I didn't like the way Yates rode today. Doesn't seem he understands his place as a domestique...
agree. 11 mins down and he's not going to win the stage in that company, so why not support Almeida, whose only 27 secs down, and get some brownie points in the bank for later in the season??? Not race smart or longer term season smart today.
@@trevorhayes5414 Exactly! Horrible way to "contribute" to the team as the new guy!
@@trevorhayes5414 Almeida was only 10 secs behind at the time. Also have to fault the team for not telling Yates to drop back.
@@trevorhayes5414he was only 10 sec, behind, if yates worked for him, maybe tomorrow he would still be at the 10 sec, or could have fougth for the win today, if pushed to the main group
@@bernardoleandro4278 Agreed - We need to know what the DS was saying in their ears.
You are a treasure, Lanterne. I make sure to watch all the post vid ads for you.
Had me laughing from start to finish! Great analysis 😁
When Pogacar is racing, UAE are pretty cohesive team... When he isn't leader then its a free for all..
Without Pogcar there's no UAE fosho🙄
RE rides like a pro bro here, if he doesn’t chase maybe no one else does either and Chaves gets the cash. But yah the bad line in the right hand turn before the finish cost him the savings he previously earned.
Almeida should go to Alpecin
caffein champô
i wonder if roglic had a gear problem or something in that finish. thought he would win for certain.
He´s just not good enough right now. I was quite surprised he managed to hang on with relative ease. 2 weeks ago in the Tirreno mountain stage he got dropped by about 10 riders before everything came back together. Prime Roglic would´ve won that first stage by 10 bike lengths.
at the finish line, there was almost a crash between Ciccone and Remco and between Ciccone and Roglic, insane.
I love this race, my fave of the one weekers I think.
correct me if i am wrong but within UAE i see a clear hirarchy. If Pogacar starts, everyone has to help him. If he isnt on the team, its everyone on its own.
Pogacar is superior to all others on the team on strength so he is the undisputed boss & captain + he is the PR star of the team for the sheik’s in Dubai who pay the salary’s Pogacar can also literally decide who they will sign on the team or let go
Also keep a close eye on Cian Uijtdebroeks.
I have a feeling that with the way UAE manages the team with Pog and without Pog that they will have a bad surprise in the TdF as they did last year.
Hope so.😊
epic commentary! and casually dropping you were with jumbo visma?!
Thought the same haha
FIRST! :D Well - you make awesome videos. Keep em coming! :)
In the team car?! Man got some contacts now 🤘
It's a good thing UAE has Pogacar, who can win at will on his own, because without him they are the strategic equivalent of Ferrari in Formula 1, a complete gong show.
Can somebody please tell Remco that there is more to racing than riding on the front! 😃👍👏💪
Bad team spirit from UAE None!
Cico really fought for that Win👍😜🔝❤️
We need the Milan San Remo recap
I dont have the rights
@@LanterneRougeCycling But do you have the lefts?
@@LanterneRougeCycling such a shame, who is going to give Trentin his plaudits for perhaps the best losing of the wheel we’ve ever seen?
@@christianthompson1393He lost it at just the perfect time 👌
@@LanterneRougeCycling what a pity!!! I was waiting and looking for it 😢
What!?!? Were you really in the team car bro?? I am super duper jealous!!
He's worked with Jumbo Visma in the past in some capacity.
I mean to Yates credit he dropped back for Almeida....but only with 2k to go....so i think we can conclude, that he will win the stage tomorrow and Almeida loses a few seconds because of it :D
Simòn Cærr
i dont know why remco keeps doing the same thing, it almost workled tho
Snow on the mountains, frosty in the UAE bus
Maybe Almeida isn't well-liked by his teammates? Hope it more like the two guys up the road (Yates and Solar) were too focused on their efforts to notice.
I'm bias because I'm portuguese but João is the kindest guy you will know on the peloton. And that's his problem, he needs to be tougher and demand better from his team. He was second in Tirreno!! That's no joke! He's the rider in this team after Tadej.
@@Rodriportugal1 true
@Rodrigo I can accept that (that he is a good man and his team and the peloton like him). He obviously has huge capabilities on the bike. He does need to ride away from the other leaders, not seemingly always putting in huge efforts to catch up in the last kilometers due to dropping back earlier on big climbs.
For some tactical reason, then, the DS abandoned him when he had the mechanical and bike switch - maybe thinking that Yates and Soler still had a chance to compete for the stage?
A lone bright spot in an otherwise terrible week for an injury-marred Trek team.
É uma excelente questão.
Infelizmente já na sua equipa anterior o João Almeida fica sempre sem apoio quando é necessário 🤔
O ano passado era o Rui Costa o único a puxar kms e kms até rebentar e depois o João Almeida ficava entregue a sua sorte 😞
João Almeida certamente não é o melhor ciclista do mundo mas merecia outro trabalho da sua equipa.
A UAE para que tem dinheiro mas não tem cérebro....
FORÇA JOÃO ALMEIDA 💪
Mesmo contra ventos e marés como os nossos antepassados 🇵🇹
Abraço desde Aveiro 🇵🇹
Nice question
"REMCO CHOO CHOOO" LOL!
All the Choo chooing
Soler, the worst teammate that a rider can have
If Pogi is riding Soler will sacrifice himself in a heartbeat
Will Trek-Segafredo build a team to support Ciccone at the Giro? Would he want to go for GC or just stages? Is Trek even capable of building a GC team? Is his target Giro or is he peaking too early?
Why do these Catalan climbs sound like Jumbo Visma riders, first Valter and now Laporte
I think Bernal still got a long way to go...or he's just finished. Too young and too sad though. So far I don't see anyone in this GC that can match up with Pogacar.
this year is his rebuilding year, he just needs to get some hard race days in the legs. I can see him being a mountain domestique for the rest of the year and rebuilding his form.
UAE is a total joke of a team. Almeida falling behind because of a mechanical, and no help from yates and soler, who are far behind the GC. Ridiculous!!
uae without pog is 0
@@BlazPerus wrong, they have a very strong team of climbers, they just dont know how to work together.
I think he thought he could ride them off his wheel....
Landa's side look will be in new memes )))
Joke of a team, even with 10 minutes gap yates didnt wait, no words, UAE never learn and i wont even talk about solerism. The giro will be hard for almeida fans.
Yes, it looks like it's going to be a tough 3 weeks for us 😞.
But we still believe in Almeida Diesel
But we will always Bota Lume ❤🔥
UAE just can't get it together. And I doubt it they will at the Giro. It's a lost cause.
Almeida was left behind because Almeida always rides better when he has to catch up from behind.
Pretty funny hearing you use "chasse patate".
Ciccone with the double block...
UAE clearly riding for the team classification inspired by Movistar. 😂
Looks like Remco did a lot of work in front and pulled Roglic and Ciccone to the finish line.
You could see it like that but Remco likes to pace high so punchier riders like Roglic cannot attack him, like at the vuelta. It'll be interesting to see with a fitter Roglic tho
he lost his calmness, the group was considerably big so no one dared attack. He could have won if he timed his sprint better as he dropped them anyway
@@endautrestermes watching the first stage sprint I wonder how much punchier Roglic would be here... Remco seems to have grown alot and I don't know if Roglic would be able to drop Remco anymore. It kinda looks like they wouldn't be able to drop eachother at any point. Evenepoel just needs to play it a bit smarter. Wasting strength by pulling for 2km straight and once Chavez was caught he should've just taken Chavez his wheel and let one of the others start an attack, anticipate and kill it just before the line like they did to him now
Wtf did you call Simon Carr? 😂😂
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UAE is anything but a team
UAE is the worst team for Almeida NO team spirit its all for the bookies and the money thing. Also why are these super expensive gears crashing at all?
We all know you gotta do a Z before crossing the finish line
Why did No One Help Joao Almeida? After watching this video, you'll still not know.
If it's Primoz vs Remco then it's 2-0
Not Yates fault?! Look at the overhead footage. Yates completely chopped Sbaragli as Sbaragli was looking over his shoulder. Yates dove across the road not clearing him trying to get in the wheels. Unfortunately Cataldo suffered the worst.
Agreed - I could tell that it was yates, but the UAE rider chops hard left for absolutely no good reason - and catastrophe follows.
Roglic and vingegaard are better tactical than pogacar. Odd b c wva so bad w tactics so many times
Pogacar is better physically tho than roglic and vingegaard. (That goes to his head sometimes tho, same wva.)
Roglic is looking like now that he wd have outside chance to win tour. But a prob: roglic crashes a lot
I wd if jumbo director tell 1) roglic 1) we make change of plans: our sports biggest race far and away is tour, you are going to tour2) let’s also race giro, but there you go only 92% you never try to win gc, we want an approx 6th place finish. You finish higher than that we regard it as a failure.
What is a giro win worth? I wd trade 6 giros maybe 7 or 8 for one tour win
Roglic race giro sub max under radar. And win tour. In 1989 when Lemond was washed up and was history that’s what lemond did (89 giro) to win 89 tour
Too many egos.
First 2 stage finishes have looked a bit choreographed. Maybe it's just me.
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@@mauriciomarques5533 ¿no?
I wish you would title these properly (stage 2 highlights…) but I understand you are a minx for views
bro what do you want them to do XD
What are you responding to?
@@skylerschwendeman Probably the title of the video.
In which case the answer is: let Yates or Soler drop back to help Almeida.
well, maybe drop for the 3th best rider on the whole team, just maybe. Soler and Yates aren't on the level of Almeida or Ayuso, and Pogacar ain't even a discussion
@@Tibovl you’re missing the point that there’s basically zero draft up there, pointless dropping a rider back. They waited for him when it eased off effectively then being fresher to push harder in the front where he can actually benefit from a draft
@@We_do_phys It doesn't matter. Yates lost minutes yesterday and Soler isn't a threat for gc. Either one of them should have waited immediately, even if it would have only saved a second in the end.
Almeida wasn't very eager to drop back in the Giro two years ago when Evenepoel was still high in GC. Sometimes you need to lead by example!
He wasn't eager but he still did it.
name one stage he didnt support remco in that giro.
Almeida did drop back in that Giro, on multiples occasions, to help Remco! Even when Remco didn´t have much more left he still stood with him. And then went on to finish 4th in the GC if i´m not mistaken! This was a bad call by UAE and a bad show of a teammate by Yates and Soler!
This is not true. Almeida was always with Remco who finished in 18 or19 GC (if my memory serves me right). only in the last stages after the team's order did Almeida drop Remco and still finished 6th. To give something to the team...
Straight up lie but whatever
Chaves Colombia jersey is one of the best in the peloton
Higuita's was slightly cooler but still.
remco not even close to almeida on this