Ineos Grenadier heads to Milan-San Remo with multiple options, including Filippo Ganna, Tom Pidcock, Elia Viviani, Ethan Hayter, and Michal Kwiatkowski.

Ganna, the time trial world champion, is Italy's main hope for Saturday's race, providing leadership inside and outside the team.

He will be alongside Pidcock, the team's classics leader, who is coming into his second Milan-San Remo race with a slight question mark after recently falling ill.

Viviani has finished in the top 10 in La Classissima in the past and is an option for the sprint.

Kwiatkowski won Milan-San Remo in 2017 and crossed the poggio last year, but has since been in a support role, as has Ben Swift, who made the podium in 2014.

The team will be joined by road captain Luke Rowe.

"You have to think carefully about making certain attacks because after nearly 300 kilometers of racing, you never know what can happen and every detail can be important," Ganna recently told BiciPro about La Primavera.

On Saturday, the favorites to win this year's opening Monument are Tadey Pogachar (UAE Team Emirates), Wout Van Art (Jumbo Visma), and Caleb Yuan (Lot Soudal). Last year's San Remo winner, Jasper Steuben (Trek Segafredo), was absent due to illness.

Ineos will bring a group of riders who can cover all strategies, from the attack in Cipressa and Poggio to the last kick in the sprint in Via Roma on the Ligurian coast.

But for the Italian riders, the race itself is especially crucial. Viviani won the first stage in Provence for Ineos, and he and Ganna used their home Tirreno-Adriatico to prepare for the final on the Via Roma. However, Viviani retired from stage 6 with a high fever and what he called a "strong flu". Today could be Ganna's day to shine.

Pidcock is another rider on the team who is not feeling well. He had a "stomach bug" that took him out of Strade Bianche before he could get to the starting line, but he has been training in the Andorra region for the past few days. Kwiatkowski finished in the pack in Milan-Torino this year and has only raced for eight days.

Last year, Pidcock and Kwiatkowski joined the Ineos group after climbing Poggio, led by Ganna. However, they did not take any risks on the descent, finishing 15th and 17th, respectively.