Matteo Trentin will lead his Mitchelton-Scott team at Paris-Roubaix on Sunday, hoping that he can perform better than his 21st place at last weekend`s Tour of Flanders. This time, the Italian can count on the vast experience of the now-retired 2016 Roubaix champion Mat Hayman in a directeur sportif role for the team, while in-race support will come from Jack Bauer and Michael Hepburn. `Roubaix is the last of the cobbled Classics ahead of a transition to the Ardennes Classics, and a successful race would be one that was better than Flanders,` Trentin said, having been unable to follow the main favourites on the climb of the Kruisberg with around 25km left to go.ADVERTISEMENT `At Flanders, I didn`t have a good day, but I hope it was only that day, so let`s see if this Sunday will be a little bit better for me,` he said. `The transition from the Classics so far to Roubaix is like going from rock concerts to a heavy metal concert,` Trentin continued. `It`s more of the same, but rougher, harder and, even though there are no climbs - it`s fully flat - it just makes you exhausted. `Punctures and crashes are obviously the thing to avoid. If you manage that and have good legs, then it should be all good,` he said.
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