Greig Leach

It was a large group of 20 that had left the peloton far behind. The problem for the break away is that is too many to have everyone keep working together all the way to the finish. Just after Phil Liggett and Bob Roll had been discussing who would be the one to go off the front, it was in fact Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo) that went off the front as predicted. His attack was chased down by Silvan Dillier (Alpecin-Fenix) with Brent Van Moer (Lotto Soudal) and Georg Zimmermann (Intermache-Wanty Gobert) joining in the chase. This attack was neutralized, but now everyone would be trying to get away until it eventually works. With the peloton almost eleven minutes behind, the stage winner was going to be one of these guys in the break. That meant all the more reason to try and get off the front.