Littler stuns Price 6-5 after 5-0 Dublin comeback
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- Luke Littler recovered from 5-0 down to defeat Gerwyn Price 6-5 in the Premier League Darts Week 7 final in Dublin, winning six legs in succession after Price missed five darts to close out the match.
- Littler had earlier survived a semi-final shootout with Michael van Gerwen, also decided 6-5, which featured two 170 maximum checkouts — Van Gerwen landed his after Littler missed his first attempt, and the world champion answered with one of his own.
- Price's demolition run to the final included a 6-0 whitewash of Josh Rock, who remains without a Premier League win after seven straight losses, and a 6-1 dismantling of defending champion Luke Humphries.
- The win — Littler's second weekly victory of the 2026 season — cut his deficit to league leader Jonny Clayton to three points with nine weeks of the league stage remaining.
- Gian van Veen was forced to pull out before the quarter-finals due to kidney stones, handing Van Gerwen a bye straight into the semi-final against Littler.
- Week 8 heads to Berlin's Uber Arena on 26 March, where Littler faces Stephen Bunting in the quarter-finals and Price takes on a returning Van Veen.
Why it matters: Littler's second nightly win of the season tightens the title race to a three-point gap behind Clayton, keeping the 19-year-old firmly in play for the May play-offs. The comeback also exposed a dramatic nerve collapse from Price, who squandered five match darts from a dominant 5-0 position — a result that could reshape the psychological dynamics of the league for the rest of the campaign.
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