Zdenek Stybar has been getting closer to winning Paris-Roubaix for the last three seasons. The Czech from Etixx-QuickStep says that you need to have good legs to win the race, but hopes his cyclocross skills can give him an advantage.

"It’s very difficult for me to say if I have an advantage in Roubaix. For me it feels pretty natural, everything I do on a bike,” Stybar told Cyclingnews at an Etixx-QuickStep media gathering on Friday. “But to be up front at Roubaix you need also a lot of really good condition. I think I can save some energy just by choosing the right line, and maybe being more relaxed. But still, it’s all about the legs.”

Stybar says that throughout the Classics, his team’s poor results has been down to bad luck rather than bad form and they hope to correct it in Roubaix.

“I think we’ve always been a bit unlucky,” Stybar said. “Maybe we’ve missed the one per cent to go with the strongest guys. For example in E3 Harelbeke I believe that if I didn’t have a flat tyre I could have gone with [Michal] Kwiatkowski and [Peter] Sagan. Also in Flanders the final happened a bit strangely.”