Already in the round of 16 of the World Cup of Darts was for the English dream duo Luke Littler and Luke Humphries. The Welship of Gerwyn Price had declared the lack of a team spirit of the superstars that the house-high favorites were unsuccessful at the team World Cup. Humphries sees it very differently.
“It takes a good connection to the partner, team play is needed at this tournament. There was exactly one team that was not a team here. They didn’t train with each other behind the scenes, they did not sit together, they did not appear like a team,” said Gerwyn Price on the sidelines of the World Cup of Darts in Frankfurt.
The “Iceman” did not name Luke Littler and Luke Humphries by name. “I don’t say that, but … they left in the first game,” said Price in a variety of ways. The prime minister’s tank then made high waves. However, Humphries does not share the opinion of the Welsh.
Darts: “The talk is wrong”
“There was a lot of talk about that we were not a team. But first -hand – we were a team,” said “Cool Hand Luke” on the edge of the US Darts Masters in New York: “We sat right next to each other at the table – I, my manager, my girlfriend. He was sitting right next to me. The talk was not right. So we understand each other really well. It just didn’t work out for us.”
The round of 16 was “devastating” because “so many English fans were happy about our defeat. The Germans would never do this to their players. It was incredibly hard, especially for Luke. I could see on his face that he did not enjoy it,” said the darts world champion from 2024.
The heated atmosphere had visibly bothered “The Nuke”. After the bankruptcy in the round of 16, the teenager was stormed off the stage in no time.