{"id":883404,"date":"2026-04-09T23:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/883404\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T23:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:18:14","slug":"premier-league-darts-live-luke-littler-out-early-as-jonny-clayton-secures-win-in-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/883404\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League Darts LIVE: Luke Littler out early as Jonny Clayton secures win in Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Littler can start chasing me again&#8217;published at 23:11 BST<\/p>\n<p>23:11 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Result: Clayton 6-5 Van Gerwen<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">Night winner Jonny Clayton, speaking to Sky Sports: <\/b>&#8220;I thought the game was over at 5-2 up for Michael. He missed, he gave me a chance. You&#8217;ve got to take chances. That last leg was probably my best of the game. I&#8217;m back on top of the table, Luke Littler can start chasing me again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">On being back at the top of the table:<\/b> &#8220;It feels great to be honest. I know what it&#8217;s like to be here, I&#8217;ve got the experience, I know what you needd to get to finals night. Take your chances, play decent, you&#8217;ve got a good chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">On using the bullseye:<\/b> &#8220;I love a bullseye. At the end of the day, I don&#8217;t mind the bullseye. Sometimes they go, sometimes they don&#8217;t. Those two legs, they went.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">On how he approached tonight:<\/b> &#8220;I&#8217;d lost to Josh last week and the week before. Josh just hit every double going last week. It puts you under pressure. Tonight I just hoped for two points, anything after that is a bonus. Another trophy for the cabinet, I&#8217;m happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">On whether the players discuss the table: <\/b>&#8220;Obviously we look at it. We don&#8217;t discuss it really. You just want to be in that top four. It doesn&#8217;t matter who you play, you&#8217;re there. It&#8217;s anybody&#8217;s night, hopefully it&#8217;s going to be mine.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Littler can start chasing me again&#8217;published at 23:11 BST 23:11 BST Result: Clayton 6-5 Van Gerwen Night winner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-883404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116377308656366635","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883404","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=883404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}