{"id":57043,"date":"2026-04-23T22:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=57043"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:20:08","slug":"cx2v3g2qyx7oat_mediumrssat_campaignrss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/04\/23\/cx2v3g2qyx7oat_mediumrssat_campaignrss\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League Darts 2026: Luke Littler beat Jonny Clayton to win in Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Luke Littler overcame a chorus of boos in Liverpool to strengthen his grip on a Premier League play-off place with an impressive 6-0 win over Jonny Clayton. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester United fan Littler, 19, was booed throughout the night on Merseyside, but he kept his cool to claim his fourth nightly win in week 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The world champion saw off Luke Humphries 6-2 in the quarter-finals, but was pushed to the limit by Michael van Gerwen in the last four. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With the top four in the Premier League table going through to the finals night, Clayton leads the way overall, three points clear of second-placed Littler, who is 15 ahead of Gian van Veen in fifth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With four nights to go, Clayton and Littler are all but assured of a place at London&#8217;s O2 Arena for finals night on 28 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When comparing his reception in Rotterdam last Thursday to the one he got in Liverpool, Littler said: &#8220;Rotterdam was way louder than this tonight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There was a little bit [of booing] but this week was nothing compared to last week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve just got to forget about it. I was definitely focused and wanted to win tonight, and that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Littler has finished top of the table in the previous two years and is determined to do so again, saying: &#8220;I&#8217;m very close to Jonny now and I&#8217;m going to go chasing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to finish top once again and if it&#8217;s not to be then it&#8217;s not to be, but there are still four weeks left to play for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Littler, who was booed in Rotterdam last week after following his exchange with Dutch number one Gian van Veen in Manchester three weeks ago, showed his resilience to secure another five points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He quickly raced into a 4-0 lead over Clayton in the final after capitalising on missed doubles from the 2021 Premier League champion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With Clayton only able to land one out of his six double attempts, Littler didn&#8217;t need to produce anything spectacular to claim the nightly win. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An average just shy of 100 and a brilliant 67% finish rate were enough for the world champion to claim victory in Liverpool.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Premier #League #Darts #Luke #Littler #beat #Jonny #Clayton #win #Liverpool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Littler overcame a chorus of boos in Liverpool to strengthen his grip on a Premier League play-off place with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57045,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57043\/revisions\/57045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}