Michael Matthews will lead Team Sunweb at this weekend´s Milan-San Remo, with the team happy that he has sufficiently recovered from a fractured shoulder to contest the first monument of the season. Tom Dumoulin, who was forced to abandon Tirreno-Adriatico following a crash, has also been named in the seven-rider line-up. Matthews crashed heavily during Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, his first race of the season, just under three weeks ago. While he was able to finish the race, subsequent tests revealed that he had fractured his shoulder and he was immediately ruled out of Strade Bianche the following weekend. Tirreno-Adriatico was also on his calendar, but the team made the call to replace him with Chad Haga for the week-long race. Despite such a recent injury, Sunweb said in an update on the team website that they were confident Matthews was ready to compete. `Michael has been progressing very well after fracturing his shoulder at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. He has been able to do some high-quality training in the past week, with tolerable pain levels and we are confident he´s ready to race again on Saturday at Milan-San Remo,` they wrote.ADVERTISEMENT Matthews has made no bones about his desire to win Milan-San Remo and has geared his early season around La Primavera in recent seasons. He made a major step forward when he finished third in 2015. However, a crash in the 2016 race but paid to his hope then, while he was unable to go with the race-winning attack of Peter Sagan, Michal Kwiatkowski and Julian Alaphilippe last season. Supporting Matthews will be sprinters Nikias Arndt and Edward Theuns, along with time triallist Lennard Kamna, road captain Roy Curvers and climber Sam Oomen. Dumoulin, who put in an aggressive performance in last year´s race, is expected to play an important role in the finale, which includes the crucial ascents of the Cipressa and the Poggio. Dumoulin has had a difficult preparation for the race. After suffering carrying a cold from Strade B ...
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