Michael Van Gerwen crashed out of the 2025 Premier League with yet one more determined defeat.
Van Gerwen was within the brink of elimination within the 2025 Premier League marketing campaign going into Night time 16 in Sheffield.
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He wanted a quarter-final victory over Nathan Aspinall and a nightly win to leapfrog his rival into fourth place and qualify for the play-offs at London’s O2 Enviornment subsequent week.
The Sheffield crowd had been in full voice on the ultimate evening with ‘The Inexperienced Machine’ understanding it was do or die on the oche.
His struggles have been nicely documented with Van Gerwen removed from the degrees of his earlier tungsten brilliance.
And his woes on the large stage continued, with the Englishman delivering to safe his place at subsequent week’s showpiece closing week.
Aspinall cruised to a 6-2 victory and was delighted as he celebrated pinning the double high to complete the match.
The dart killed of Van Gerwen’s late assault on the play-offs and ensured The Killers’ Mr Brightside would function on the London stage subsequent week.
The mammoth seven-time winner was not on the races, and it was disappointment and dejection as he trudged off stage.
An anxious watch for an eighth title within the Premier League will go on, and he will probably be hoping to revive confidence and momentum within the coming weeks.
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