Close 5: 4 victory at the Darts World Cup: Price screams dramatically into the semi-finals

Friday, January 1st, 2021

Close 5: 4 victory at the Darts World Cup
Price screams his way into the semifinals dramatically

For the second time in a row Gerwyn Price moves into the semi-finals of the Darts World Cup. After a comfortable lead, the "Iceman" has to fight the Northern Irishman Daryl Gurney mightily. It goes back and forth, again and again Price lets go of his primal scream. But he really has to tremble when making the decision.

World-class professional Gerwyn Price from Wales reached the semi-finals at the Darts World Cup in London, like last year. The former professional rugby player, nicknamed "The Iceman", beat Northern Irishman Daryl Gurney 5: 4 at Alexandra Palace.

The Welshman gave up clear leads twice, initially easily leading 2-0 sets. Everything looked like a walk, because Gurney could only win one leg in these two sentences. But then the Northern Irish fought their way back and equaled to 2: 2. Price shook himself once and put it back to 3: 2 and finally 4: 2. Each time he let go of his dreaded primal scream, which this time did not intimidate the enemy.

Because then it was Gurney's turn again and even won six legs in a row. Again and again the "180" let the player speak for themselves, it went back and forth in a very varied and respectable game. In the end it got dramatic: Gurney played better in the decision leg and had the win in hand, but didn't hit his match darts. Price then took his chance and won the match with an arrow in double 20.

Muscleman Price will now meet in the semi-finals on Saturday after winning the crime thriller (7 p.m. / Sport1 and DAZN and in the live ticker on ntv.de)) on the Englishman Stephen Bunting, who defeated Krzysztof Ratajski 5-3 in the afternoon. Muscleman Price can become number one in the world for the first time after the World Cup, but must also win his first World Cup title.

The Scottish veteran Gary Anderson is also in the semi-finals. The 2015 and 2016 world champion won his quarter-finals against Dirk van Duijvenbode from the Netherlands 5-1. Anderson, who is struggling with knee problems and came out of a corona quarantine for the World Cup, actually went into the tournament as an outsider.