"Van der Poel will sprint for second place" - Experts doubt world champion can contend with Tadej Pogacar at Liège-Bastogne-Liège

Why would he raced only for silver medal? He can just eat Betty Crocker's frozen meals alone, instead :-)

MVP won't even get second ! It's a climbers race and he's to heavy for this monument.

Also, let's not write off Roglic's chances. He should have recovered from his injuries by then. Pogacar certainly has the strongest team with Ayuso and Almedia both in the line up.

Hope they did not get injured while doing so... I pick TP any day. But, as always MDVD cannot be rule out. Pogacar 55-45 Van der Poel seems much better to me

Hmm, very simplistic No consideration of teams. Assuming they’re one on one all the way from then All based on past average performances, doesn’t seem to have noticed MvdP is doing everything at 1-2km/h average higher speed with much in solo so I doubt he’s not improved his climbing, especially now he’s enjoying living in Spain always close to climbs (might have been another part of his motivation). I still favour TP but it’s not so clear cut, 2/3 - 1/3 sounds reasonable. Who’s the other expert? Addition: looking more and more silly to speak of experts here when you quote one and have one other article on the subject with another expert who has a very different opinion. I use the word expert very loosely here, more like people given a platform.