{"id":671912,"date":"2026-01-03T21:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/671912\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:01:12","slug":"world-darts-championship-final-live-luke-littler-vs-gian-van-veen-score-result-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/671912\/","title":{"rendered":"World Darts Championship final LIVE: Luke Littler vs Gian van Veen &#8211; score, result &#038; updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Postpublished at 20:59 GMT<\/p>\n<p>20:59 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Littler 3-1 Van Veen (0-0)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-kkut0v-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/80bffaf3-b307-4ffc-b5b1-fe8456287e9f.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Sam Drury<\/strong><br \/>BBC Sport at Alexandra Palace<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is looking ominous for Gian van Veen. He needs this mini break to try to regroup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Dutchman has not played badly for much of this match, in fact, for the first three sets he played very well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luke Littler has just been that bit better. The teenager is really putting on a show and has won nine of the past 10 legs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Postpublished at 20:59 GMT 20:59 GMT Littler 3-1 Van Veen (0-0) Sam DruryBBC Sport at Alexandra Palace This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-671912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115833188101268983","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}