La Vuelta 2025 Stage 14 LIVE - Marc Soler makes it seven stage wins for UAE as Almeida and Vingegaard prove inseparable on La Farrapona

And I shall see you here tomorrow. An actual easy day. Kinda.

Possibly exaggerated, but we're shown as he gives Soler a hearty slap on the back. Says something, I think.

Short but sweet.

Which tells you how much of a risk it was to let him go. it ~seemed~ to pay off, but still. I know teams have to balance collective and individual ambitions, but that's pushing it, surely?

Taking ten seconds on Pidcock who finished in 8th place. 32 seconds now separate them in 4th and 3rd respectively.

But this time he can't separate himself from Vingegaard, who comes past for second place and six bonus seconds.

But could Almeida have done more if he'd had more help? Whichever way you slice it, it's number 80 for the season for the team.

Almeida follows, so does Vingegaard. Eyes on Tom Pidcock, who looked to me to be struggling.

Almeida tells some over-enthusiastic flag-wielding fans from his home country to back off. "Think they may have been on the Super Bock" says Rob Hatch. That's the only Portugese beer, for those unfamiliar.

It's all well and good picking up a large hatful of stages, but you'd think if he did have their full confidence they'd have given him a bit more support. I.e. Some. The white jersey of Giulio Pellizzari goes to the front to work for Jai Hindley. Classy touch. Just nine riders left in the group now, all of the top ten except Ciccone.

And riding to second place in a Grand Tour stage. Soler gets a thumbs up from the team car, which comes alongside him and gives him just a little bit of welcome shelter. He's not the most elegant of riders but it's not totally ineffective. Staune Mittet has come back to help Armirail.

It does make my life easier without them, but it would make better telly if something happens. 2'38 now from Soler to his team-mates (and the red jersey.)

Jay Vine finally gives in, handing over to Felix Großschartner. Worth noting that Jonas Vingegaard still has two team-mates in Kuss and Jorgenson. Torstein Traeen is still in this group, riding really well.

The ticker to Soler,which we're not entirely trusting, still says 3'10. This is where it gets hard.

His swanny was a bit further up the hill. All good.

He looks to a Q36.5 soigneur for a bidon, and is denied, because it's destined for the rider behind him Tom Pidcock.

A brief relaxing of gradient before the road kicks up again. He's giving the Spanish fans reason to believe.

And that is that from Bjerg, whose name is easier to type than pronounce. Marc Soler, with about a minute over the nearest rider, is going for the stage, but he is about to turn into that headwind we spoke about earlier.

We have a slightly bizarre situation, in which Marc Soler is out solo, effectively being hunted by his team-mates in the bunch, powered by a visibly pained Mikkel Bjerg. I say bizarre, because it's not like we haven't seen Soler ride like this before, only it was with Movistar, where you expect that sort of thing. It looks like he's got about three minutes on the peloton, making it more than a minute back to the remains of the break.