Gary Anderson really impressed me in his victory over Clayton in Round 2, emerging as an 11-7 winner with a 98.13 average and 7+ 180s.

It wasn’t quite the freakish standard he set in his opening round win over Ryan Joyce, but Anderson looked really relaxed and should fancy his chance of seeing off Dirk van Duijvenbode, who has had to come through two real battles so far against Chris Dobey and Michael van Gerwen.

The Dutchman has never been past this stage of the World Matchplay, last reaching the quarter-finals in 2022. 

He’s not quite hit the standards that we’ve seen from Anderson at this tournament - and the Scotsman also has the edge over van Duijvenbode when it comes to experience at this stage of a major tournament.

These two faced off in the semi-finals of the World Matchplay last year in what was one of the best ever games we’ve seen at the tournament, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see a repeat of that standard in this quarter-final.

Littler edged the contest 17-14 in the end, and it’s not the only meeting between the two over this format in the last year to be competitive. Littler and Rock also faced off in the quarter-finals of the Grand Slam (16-12) and the second stage of the UK Open (11-9), which were also both won by Littler.

Rock hasn’t been at his best so far, but he hasn’t needed to be either, with both Luke Woodhouse and Stephen Bunting being really poor as his two opponents so far. I think he will rise to the level of Littler, as he has done in recent meetings, and this is a generous enough handicap to cover Rock being competitive.

We need Rock to win eight legs or more to cover this bet.