WARRINGTON’S Luke Littler silenced the boo boys to defeat world No 1 Luke Humphries 6-5 in Glasgow and pick up his first nightly win of the Premier League season.
Littler beat a trio of world champions Rob Cross, Michael van Gerwen and Luke Humphries to win Premier League Night Two in Glasgow.
The reigning world champion staged an incredible fightback from 5-1 down to defeat Rob Cross in the opening match before beating Michael van Gerwen and then halting Humphries’ bid for back-to-back nightly wins to kick off his season.
Humphries came to the stage bothered by a cut to his finger but it did not seem to trouble his game as the rivals went at it hammer and tongs from the off.
Littler reeled in a spectacular ‘Big Fish’ with Humphries coming close to hitting his own in the eighth leg.
The contest, which was largely overshadowed by constant whistling in the crowd, was settled in a deciding-leg shootout, won by Littler on D20.
“Me and Luke both weren’t at our best. It was a weird game,” said Littler, who has now won all six of his Premier League meetings against Humphries.
“I did well to hit a 10-darter and 11-darter when it mattered and that was crucial.
“You just have to keep going. When I was 5-1 down against Rob I had to pull it out of the bag and thankfully I did.
“Coming into tonight, I just wanted to win that first game and get some points on the board, and my confidence went through the roof after the comeback against Rob.”
Littler later spoke out against the whistling both he and Humphries received, saying: “Obviously they’ve got to step in at some point and say something. That was pretty bad but I got the win.”
That’s more like it😅 tough first game against Rob but grew in confidence and happy to be taking home the trophy🏆 hopefully the first of many and looking forward to fighting for another one next week in Dublin🙏🏼 pic.twitter.com/BeUVyxZlM3
— Luke Littler (@LukeTheNuke180) February 14, 2025
GLASGOW GLORY FOR LUKE LITTLER 🏴
Luke Littler is the Night Two Champion as beats Luke Humphries to pick up his first nightly win of the year.
What a night for The Nuke ☢️
📺 https://t.co/CxOorrFXK9#PLDarts25 pic.twitter.com/QLstCF25TK
— PDC Darts (@OfficialPDC) February 13, 2025
