Good morning and welcome to the Gent-Wevelgem live blog. We're jumping right into the action, despite still having four hours of racing to come, as we're receiving news of a 20-strong super break that has already opened up a gap on the peloton.

It's Trentin and Rowe who look the strongest, while Sagan loses a bike-length.

We're back on the cobbles of the Kemmelberg and my goodness me it looks unpleasant.

Deceuninck peg back the two young phenoms. We have only the Kemmelberg to go in a couple of minutes. Gap to the break is 42 seconds.

These two are firm rivals, having contested a lot of cyclocross races in their time.

Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert are attacking on the Baneberg!

Kristoff continues to power through the gap. We can make out the peloton in the distance behind him as he grimaces his way up the Baneberg.

Luke Rowe leads his new-old breakaway pals up the Baneberg.

The five leaders have 51 seconds. Kristoff is 34 seconds back from them.

Alex Kristoff has had a dig! The big Norwegian has decided that Luke Rowe had the right idea and he too is powering into the gap.

Greg van Avermaet has been barely visible today. In a good way.

On Friday at E3 the Olympic champ got leant on to do the lion's share of the chasing in the run-in to the final, and seemed to lack the energy to challenge Stybar when it came down to a sprint. By contrast, today he has quietly gone about the business of following wheels, could we see him repeat his victory of 2017?

He's almost there now, Rowe, but he looks knackered.

46 seconds back to the 'peloton'.

The Welshman has closed about half the gap to Sagan and co. already.

It's a gutsy move, one that could prove to be a masterstroke or an epic blunder...

Rowe, clearly not happy with the efforts being made by the other teams to close the gap, has decided to bridge over on his own.

Looks like we've had an attack from Luke Rowe. The man from Cardiff is feeling feisty!

Pinchazo! Flat tyre for Adrien Petit of Direct Energie.

TV graphics tell me the leaders are now on something called 'Plugstreet 3 - The Catacombs'. I'm not sure if that's a gravel sector, or an ill-fated 1990s video game.

You know what, the gap is going up again... 52 seconds now for Sagan/Trentin/Teunissen/Theuns

Worth mentioning Marco Haller of Team Katusha who has been doing a lot of weird attacks in this race, and in E3 on Friday. His heart doesn't seem to be particularly in it when he does go and I can only assume these are training efforts for something later in the season - Flanders, perhaps?

Lukas doesn't rate their chances...

Charlie makes a good point... without a Deceuninck jersey in it, is it even a breakaway?