‘Compared to him, I’m a goat on a bike’ – Filippo Ganna acknowledges his Paris-Roubaix weakness but throws down gauntlet for Pogačar and Van der Poel

Filippo Ganna ended the long wait for a one-day victory earlier this month at Dwars door Vlaanderen, and with it heavily boosted the belief that he could challenge for at least the podium at Paris-Roubaix.

However, for the buoyant place that the Italian powerhouse and under-23 Paris-Roubaix champion finds himself in, he knows that watts alone won’t be enough to see off Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Premier Tech) or Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG).