After the breakaway was caught with around 15km to go, it seemed set that a bunch sprint would be concluding the Belgian one-day race once again. A crash with just over 10km to go then threatened to scupper some teams leadout plans.
Into the final kilometre, it was Soudal - Quick-Step, Alpecin-Deceuninck and Team Jayco AlUla battling for the front and as all three of Fabio Jakobsen, Jasper Philipsen and Dylan Groenewegen launched a three-way photo finish was needed.