Tadej Pogačar had plenty of reasons to be pleased after he claimed his second successive stage win at the Critérium du Dauphiné to cement his hold on the leader’s yellow jersey ahead of the final stage. However, the UAE Team Emirate-XRG leader confessed that he wasn't happy with the tactics employed by his rival Visma-Lease a Bike team as they attempted to apply pressure on the descent from stage seven’s high point on the Col de la Croix de Fer.
“They attacked towards the top of La Croix de Fer, and then I think they wanted to drop me on the downhill. They went a little bit dangerous in the first couple of kilometres on the down, and I didn’t like that, but it’s modern cycling,” Pogačar said in his post-stage interview.
