A rider`s Paris-Roubaix can change in the blink of an eye. Just ask Matteo Trentin (Mitchelton Scott), who saw his race go from good to bad, to worse. The Italian was well-placed during the opening phases of the race and managed to infiltrate a group of nine that formed ahead of the first cobbled sector at Troisvilles. The group would soon swell to over 20 riders, but the European road race champion would find himself eliminated from the move three sectors later after a rear-wheel puncture. The change from neutral service was tediously slow, and Trentin would be forced to change the same wheel at the end of the sector.ADVERTISEMENT `It was just one puncture, but it wasn`t a good change, so I preferred to go back onto our wheels at the end of the sector. That meant I was gone from that break,` he told Cyclingnews after finishing the race in 43rd place and over 10 minutes down on winner and former teammate Phillipe Gilbert (Deceuninck-QuickStep). In the second half of the race, Trentin`s race unravelled further still. He was still active in the main group of favourites, but he was unable to respond when Gilbert, Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Jumbo-Visma`s Wout van Aert made attacks off the front of the race. He would eventually slip back through a number of groups before coming to the Roubaix velodrome with CCC Team`s Guillaume Van Keirsbulck. `In the second half of the race, I tried to make some moves, but I never really got in the right one. I`d make a move, but the right break would then be the next one.
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