Having missed out to late breakaways on the first two flat stages, Andre Greipel made use of his final opportunity in this year's Eneco Tour to finally take a stage win. As the designated leader for his Lotto-Belisol team in their big home race, the big German had felt the pressure prior to today's stage and was happy and relieved to deliver the desired win.

It was a frustrating start to the Eneco Tour for Andre Greipel. With his Belgian Lotto-Belisol team putting great emphasis on their home stage race, they had lined up their star sprinter with the clear intention of taking at least one stage wins but after two of the three sprint stages, the team was still left empty-handed.

Finally, the stars aligned for Greipel today when his team took control inside the final five kilometres of today's fourth stage. Having escaped a major crash, Jonas Vangenechten strung things out before Jurgen Roelandts safely engotiated the final tricky turns with Greipel just behind in third position.

Having been delivered perfectly to the line, Greipel had no trouble taking a convincing win. Afterwards, he admitted that he had felt the pressure building and was happy to see that his team was able to produce a perfect lead-out despite the absence of key riders like Greg Henderson, Marcel Sieberg and Adam Hansen.

"After yesterday's stage I was a bit frustrated but now I'm very happy with the victory," he said. "We've tried three times and now we finally did it. Today we proved with the whole team that we really have a perfect lead out. My team mates prepared the sprint in every detail and it's thanks to them I won. I felt some pressure to win today because we didn't succeed in the previous stages. Now that I've won a stage in this Eneco Tour I'm of course very happy."

With the win, Greipel moves to 2nd on GC, just 1 second behind new overall leader Lars Boom (Belkin). With a time trial and two uphill finishes coming up, the big German is, however, clearly aware that his time as a GC protagonist is limited.

"At the moment I'm in the second place in the GC, one second behind Lars Boom, but the GC is not my objective," he said. "Tomorrow there's the time trial and there will be some hard stages this weekend which are not my cup of tea. Because of this victory I can say the Eneco Tour was successful for me."

Lotto now hopes to get safely through tomorrow's time trial before putting its support behind Jurgen Roelandts and possibly Tim Wellens for the hillier stages in the weekend.

Starting at 14.45, you can follow tomorrow's hilly time trial on CyclingQuotes.com/live.