"5 riders can finish in the top-20" - UAE DS warns Giro d'Italia competition after dominant performance
CyclingSaturday, 17 May 2025 at 05:00
It took us until the stage 7 to see a first UAE Team Emirates - XRG stage victory at the 2025 Giro d'Italia. The one to break this fasting was ultimately the team's leader Juan Ayuso who let no room for doubts on Tagliacozzo.
The Spaniard took the first victory of his professional career in a Grand Tour with a devastating attack with 500 meters to go. However the dominance of UAE Team Emirates - XRG was underlined thanks to another rider.
Isaac del Toro reached the finish line in 2nd position, moving up to the Top 3 overall, only 9 seconds behind Primoz Roglic, and 5 seconds behind his teammate Ayuso. Igor Arrieta did an incredible job on the final climb to Tagliacozzo, and Jay Vine was very active in the beginning of the stage. That's just Joxean Fernández Matxín's assessment.
"It was incredible because of the work of all the riders," Matxín began by pointing out in statements published by UAE itself. "Jay Vine fought hard for the breakaway, then Baroncini was perfect all day, Arrieta in the final 2km."
"They are five guys who can finish maybe among the top 20 riders in the general classification," Matxín added, warning all his rivals.
It's not crazy. If you take a look at the general classification, these are the current positions of the UAE riders after stage 7:
| Position | Rider | Team | Time |
| 01 | Roglic Primoz | Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe | 24:32:30 |
| 02 | Ayuso Juan | UAE Team Emirates - XRG | + 04 |
| 03 | del Toro Isaac | UAE Team Emirates - XRG | + 09 |
| 07 | McNulty Brandon | UAE Team Emirates - XRG | + 34 |
| 15 | Yates Adam | UAE Team Emirates - XRG | + 48 |
| 23 | Majka Rafal | UAE Team Emirates - XRG | + 02:34 |
| 65 | Arrieta Igor | UAE Team Emirates - XRG | + 16:42 |
| 69 | Vine Jay | UAE Team Emirates - XRG | + 18:33 |
| 98 | Baroncini Filippo | UAE Team Emirates - XRG | + 33:3 |
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Not directed at you:
Firstly, not going to trust a list that features Jay Vibe 28mins down.
Secondly why if gaining 4 seconds over 500km is devastating do we criticise a superlative when Reusser gets ejected 20 seconds over 1km?
Thirdly, is Matxin happy to tacitly leave his remaining riders to fight each other at the expense of team structure? I think yes. There’s a cat and there are mice and they can do what they like as long as the cat is away. I’m pretty sure the « selfish « attitude of Ayo is partly due to encouragement, after all, has anyone heard or witnessed him getting disciplined for any initiatives? It’s a little easy and cheap to focus attitude criticism on riders alone, there’s more to it.