Luke Littler produced one of the most astonishing comebacks in Premier League Darts history, rallying from 5-0 down to defeat Gerwyn Price 6-5 and claim week seven in Dublin. Price, the defending Dublin champion, raced into a commanding lead but missed five match darts as the world champion reeled off six consecutive legs to snatch victory. The 19-year-old Littler, who admitted he felt "gone" and "might as well have been off stage" at 5-0, sealed his second weekly win of the season with a 95.54 average, four 180s, and a 50% checkout rate in a final he described as "very strange."
Littler's path to the final was equally dramatic, as he edged Michael van Gerwen 6-5 in a semi-final thriller that featured two maximum 170 checkouts. Van Gerwen hit the first 170 to move one leg from victory, but Littler responded with his own 170 finish before capitalizing on missed match darts from the Dutchman to force and win a deciding leg. Earlier, Price had been ruthless, whitewashing winless Josh Rock 6-0 and then thumping defending Premier League champion Luke Humphries 6-1, but his game deserted him in the final as Littler turned the impossible into the inevitable.
The night also saw Josh Rock's struggles continue, as he was jeered by the Dublin crowd during a 6-0 quarter-final loss to Price, marking his seventh defeat in a winless debut Premier League campaign. In other quarter-finals, Stephen Bunting fell 6-3 to Littler, while Jonny Clayton lost 6-3 to Luke Humphries; Michael van Gerwen received a bye after Gian van Veen withdrew with kidney stones. The results cut Littler's gap to league leader Jonny Clayton to just three points in the standings.
Looking ahead, Premier League Darts continues on Thursday, 26 March at the Uber Arena in Berlin, with quarter-finals set to feature Jonny Clayton vs. Josh Rock, Luke Humphries vs. Michael van Gerwen, Luke Littler vs. Stephen Bunting, and Gerwyn Price vs. Gian van Veen. The league stage runs for 16 weeks, with players earning two points per quarter-final win, an extra point for a semi-final victory, and five for winning the night. The top four after the group stage advance to the play-offs at London's O2 Arena on 23 May, where ties are decided by best-of-19-leg semi-finals and a best-of-21-leg final.
