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Luke Littler pulled off the kind of comeback that makes a darts crowd forget to breathe. In Dublin last night, the teenager looked finished, gone, toast on the carpet at 5-0 down to Gerwyn Price in the Night Seven final. Then he detonated. Six legs on the spin, a last-leg escape, and somehow the trophy was in his hands instead. It finished 6-5, but that score barely captures the chaos.
The Nuke pinches one from the fire
For most of the final, Price was bullying the board and the occasion. He had stormed through Josh Rock 6-0 in the quarter-finals and then brushed aside Luke Humphries 6-1 in the semis, arriving in the final like a man in a hurry. At 5-0 up, he was practically polishing the silverware. But Dublin got a reminder of the oldest rule in darts: nobody wins until the winning dart lands.
Price had all but won it... until he didn’t
That was the savage part for Price. He had chances to finish Littler off and missed them. Littler survived eight match darts in total on the night, three against Michael van Gerwen in the semi-final and five against Price in the final. One of those missed darts from Price came at tops with the finishing line in full view. Instead of the kill shot, he left the door ajar, and Littler came charging through it.
Once Littler nicked the first leg, then another, the whole match changed shape. Price tightened. Littler loosened. The rhythm flipped, the crowd smelled blood, and suddenly a 5-0 stroll became a 5-5 street fight. By the decider, you could almost hear the final wobbling in Price’s grip. Littler, cold as a freezer aisle, finished the job.
Dublin was wild long before the final
The final was the headline act, but Littler’s road there was already full of fireworks. He beat Stephen Bunting 6-3 in the quarters, then edged Michael van Gerwen 6-5 in a semi-final that had proper mayhem in it. Both players hit 170 checkouts in that match, and Van Gerwen also fluffed a famous 136 route during one of the night’s strangest moments. Littler had to survive three match darts there too, so by the time he met Price, he was already playing with a burglar’s confidence.
There was another twist before a dart had even been thrown. Gian van Veen withdrew from Night Seven because of kidney stones, which handed Michael van Gerwen a bye into the semi-finals. That mattered for the table, because Van Gerwen still banked points from reaching the last four.
Premier League Darts table after Night 7
1. Jonny Clayton — 19 pts 2. Luke Littler — 16 pts 3. Gerwyn Price — 12 pts 4. Luke Humphries — 11 pts 5. Michael van Gerwen — 10 pts 6. Gian van Veen — 9 pts 7. Stephen Bunting — 7 pts 8. Josh Rock — 0 pts
Littler is now only three points behind Clayton, and after a night like this, the table has that familiar feeling: once The Nuke starts rattling, everybody else hears the ceiling creak.
