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🎯 Luke Humphries to win v Nathan Aspinall
🎯 Michael Smith Most 180s v Rob Cross
Luke Humphries to win v Nathan Aspinall
These two have had five meetings in this year’s Premier League and it is Humphries who leads the head-to-head 3-2. Of these five meetings only one of them has been at the quarter-final stage and on that occasion it was Humphries who came out on top.
Both players are currently well placed in the table. ‘The Asp’ leapfrogged MVG into third place following last week’s weekly win (as tipped here on ABC). Humphries on the other hand, by virtue of reaching the semi-final went back to the summit. It’s a five-man battle for the top four and this week could be pivotal in that race.
Humphries, a serial winner of the Euro Tour the past couple of years, lost to Rob Cross at the quarter-final stage this weekend in the European Darts Grand Prix, but he played well. He’ll no doubt have picked up confidence after defeating Luke Littler for the first time since the World Championship Final, then backing this up by beating an in-form Stephen Bunting en route the quarters.
In both those victories he registered 100+ averages and has now amassed three in his last five games, following an eight-game run without one. In four of the five encounters between these two ‘Cool Hand’ has had the higher average and if he can assert an early lead in this match we can see him winning 6-3 or 6-4 and accumulating further points in the league table to cement his position at the top.
Michael Smith Most 180s v Rob Cross
Considering the format it is unusual that in the first 12 weeks of this event these two have only played each other once, in a 6-4 victory for ‘Voltage’.
Back then Cross was in good form. In the first six weeks of the event, only once did he lose at the quarter-final stage and he was sitting pretty for a place in the top four, or at least being in the mix. Fast forward the next six weeks and it’s played six, lost six as he’s lost his opening match at each event. As a result he now languishes in seventh with very little hope of reaching finals night.
Smith, on the other hand, is just outside the top four places and is very much in the mix. His record the last three weeks reads semi-final, semi-final, and runner-up.
Part of the reason for his improvement is that he’s found his maximum mojo again. During this year’s Premier League Smith has hit 78 maximums, almost double that of Cross who sits on 40. He may have played more legs of darts but his 180 per leg ratio is 0.35 per leg, which is better than that of Cross, at 0.24 per leg.
Recent form suggests there’s a gulf in this statistic too. In his last ten matches in all competitions, Smith has notched up 31 180s, and Cross only 20. Take him to hit the most maximums to complete our double.
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Liverpool is the host of Night 13 of this year’s Premier League Darts. As the league phase enters
the last four weeks of the campaign our expert is back to give us his thoughts ahead of the action
getting underway.
Premier League Darts Night 13 Outright Winner
🏆 Luke Humphries to win
Humphries is top of the pile and despite a perhaps more congested top five than we might have imagined a few weeks ago, he looks fairly assured of reaching finals night. A victory here would all but seal his spot in finals night with just three more rounds to go.
The world champion and world no. 1 is undoubtedly the most consistent player overall. He’s averaging 99.66 for the season, has averaged 100+ in 48% of his matches this season and despite an inauspicious start to life as world champion, where he lost ten of his first 17 matches, he’s gone on to lose only ten of his next 43.
He opens up against ‘The Asp’ in his first game and has the slightly better head-to-head record of the two in this year’s event before a mouth-watering clash against either Luke Littler or Gerwyn Price awaits.
Either will be a difficult game but one he can overcome, especially now he got over the line against Littler the weekend; any psychological doubts he may have should now have been put to bed. Should he face Price, it’s been a campaign of what might have been for the Welshman. He has generally played well but without the reward to show for it. A similar scenario beckons here.
🎯 Michael Smith E/W
Last weekend we tipped Nathan Aspinall to successfully win the night and this week’s draw looks similarly inviting for ‘Bully Boy’.
He kicks off against Rob Cross and while they haven’t met since Night 3 when ‘Voltage’ prevailed, their respective form in this event has completely flipped from how it was in the early stages of the competition.
Cross is now looks to be one of the players who can only spoil the party for the current top five, with his own chances of reaching finals night looking increasingly slim. Smith, meanwhile, knows how important it is to keep accumulating points especially with Aspinall up against Humphries earlier in the evening.
Should he come through his opener he will likely face MVG in the semi-final. These two currently occupy fourth and fifth spot and it would be an intriguing clash. ‘Mighty Mike’ hasn’t been at his brilliant best of late with only one 100+ average in his last 12 matches in all competitions, so now should be a good time for Smith to face him.
MVG would start favourite and has the better head-to-head record in this year’s event, leading 4-1 in their clashes, but if Smith can consistently find the red bit, he can reach the final for a second week running.
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