A Masterclass in Teamwork | La Vuelta a España Stage 2 | THEMOVE

But yeah, what to say about Vizma? You know, Vizma today was uh I think they wrote the perfect race. They they had uh a plan A and a plan B. Um, I mean probably probably three plans, one of which didn't work because I think I think you know we're going to talk a

little bit later I think about Ethan Hatra, but you know they did not manage to get Ethan Hatra back from that breakaway uh to sprint to sprint for the the bonuses and eventually try to get in the red jersey for Bernard. Uh but uh but yeah, Valard said clearly in his interview that the plan was for him to

attack there at that point, which he did. Um and Pogachar went after him and and then that didn't work out and then the plan was to sprint for Matthew Brennan. >> Beautiful teamwork by the way by Christo Laort. Um that was a huge lead out for him. But um I think Vizma today was was

was impressive. They they roped the perfect race and uh they they deservedly have the stage win. >> Everybody, welcome back to the move. I'm Spencer Martin. I'm here with Johan Bernal. We're breaking down stage two of Lavalta Espña won by Matthew Brennan. It was a reduced, extremely reduced, very hard sprint finish, slightly uphill

sprint finish after a 202 km day that left Monaco and went through the hills of Provence. Matthew Brennan wins over Pal Mckel from Bahrain Victorious. Did not see that coming with Tatty Pagatra coming in third, picking up four bonus seconds. Can't wait to pick your brain about why exactly he did that. Johan

with Mads Person fourth, Hugo Hoffetter fifth. kind of a mix of versatile sprinters, GC riders in this top 10 with some GC riders missing out, some riders who wanted the overall like Ethan her who got into the early breakaway, invested a lot of energy all day up there, got the intermediate sprint points and most importantly time bonuses