Jürgen Roelandts is the leader of Lotto Belisol in the Hell of the North after his convincing performance in the Tour of Flanders.

In the “Ronde” he brilliantly took the third place but Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack-Leopard) was unbeatable on Easter Sunday, and he is also the favourite for Paris-Roubaix. Yesterday afternoon Roelandts talked at a press conference about his plans to make things difficult for the Swiss.

“Like in the Tour of Flanders my plan is to anticipate an attack of Fabian Cancellara. He’s difficult to beat if he doesn’t have any bad luck or makes tactical mistakes. It’s our job to let him make those mistakes. We’ll see if the other riders will give me less space after my raid on Sunday, but I won’t wait. In the Tour of Flanders there was only one place that was perfect for an attack, in Roubaix it’s [all about] waiting to see where it will be possible. There you have to trust your instinct.”

“Paris-Roubaix suits me even better than the “Ronde”; it’s more technical and more people get dropped during the whole course of the race. The race is more difficult to control, because there are always many different groups. In the “Ronde” the whole team was good, we can go to Paris-Roubaix with a lot of confidence; my third place has given us an extra boost. This is my final goal of the first part of the season and I am still very motivated.”

Lotto Belisol line-up for Paris-Roubaix:

Lars Bak, Jens Debusschere, Kenny Dehaes, André Greipel, Greg Henderson, Vicente Reynes, Jürgen Roelandts en Marcel Sieberg.