Eusebio Unzue knows more about cycling than most. He has guided the likes of Pedro Delgado, Miguel Indurain, Oscar Pereiro, Alejandro Valverde and Nairo Quintana to Grand Tour wins and now he says he sees similarities between Induraina and Giant-Alpecin’s Tom Dumoulin, leading the Vuelta.

“There are certain similarities,” Unzue said during a rest day press conference for his Movistar co-leaders, “Miguel was a great time triallist who could defend his options in the mountains and that’s what Dumoulin has done here. Now we’ve got to see if Dumoulin’s time trialling is still as good as it was before he started climbing so well.”

Dumoulin’s time trialling wasn’t just good, it was great. He put a minute into the second place rider in the stage and took back over 1:50 from Fabio Aru to just about take back the race lead.

Unzue said that the Vuelta is often a discovery ground for riders who can target GC in Grand Tours in the future, like Chris Froome did in 2011. Now the likes of Dumoulin and perhaps even Estaban Chaves (Orica-GreenEDGE) are “now in the club of those contenders.”