Van Gerwen wins Premier League after blood-curdling final | Darts

Mighty Mike previously crowned the strongest in the Premier League in 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. With his victory, Van Gerwen can add an amount of 275,000 British pounds. Loser Cullen has a check for £125,000 ready.

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It was somewhat surprising that Van Gerwen had to compete with Cullen in the final. The Englishman played his semi-final against Jonny Clayton, who had won the Premier League last year. But Cullen had no compassion whatsoever for the defending champion and gave a lot of gas from the start: after just under fifteen minutes Cullen was already leading 6-0 and with that he laid the foundation for the eventual 10-4 victory.

Van Gerwen’s semi-final against James Wade went the other way. After seven legs, Van Gerwen was leading 4-3, but after he had broken Wade in the eighth leg, Van Gerwen – just like Cullen in the previous match – went out to a 10-4 victory.

Value for money

The audience in Berlin got their money’s worth in the thrilling final. After Cullen won the opening leg, Van Gerwen took a 3-1 lead. Cullen came back to 3-3, but again Van Gerwen made a two-leg gap: 5-3 and 6-4.

The Brabant player went into the break with a good feeling, but Cullen immediately got back to the spirit of the start of his match against Clayton after the restart. The Englishman completely brushed away his two legs deficit and even took a 7-6 lead.

In the final part of the match, the protagonists turned it into a spectacle. Van Gerwen repaired the damage to 7-7 and 8-8, but again Cullen took the lead. The Dutchman was once again unstoppable and Van Gerwen brought the match back into balance with a top finish: 9-9. It seemed to be the leg that Van Gerwen needed, because in the next leg he broke his opponent again. Cullen, however, did not give in and repeated Van Gerwen’s trick in his leg: 10-10.

Match darts miss and hit

In the final leg, Van Gerwen seemed to give up the match, because Cullen got a match dart on double 16. And where the Englishman failed, Van Gerwen immediately used his first match dart on double 14.

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