The second round of the 2025 Betfred World Matchplay draws to a close on Wednesday evening at Blackpool's Winter Gardens, as tournament favourite and World Champion Luke Littler plays European Championship runner-up Jermaine Wattimena. Three-time champion Michael van Gerwen faces an in-form World Cup winner in Josh Rock and 2022 runner-up Gerwyn Price takes on sixth seed Chris Dobey. Former UK Open champion Andrew Gilding and one-time World Grand Prix finalist Dirk van Duijvenbode open the evening's action.

Coverage starts at 7:00pm UK time on Sky Sports Lions (Sky Sports Action).

>Tonight’s matches (7:00pm start, best of 21 legs [first to 11])
Andrew Gilding v Dirk van Duijvenbode
(6) Chris Dobey v (11) Gerwyn Price
(2) Luke Littler v Jermaine Wattimena
(3) Michael van Gerwen v Josh Rock

All matches must be won by 2 clear legs, with up to 5 extra legs played to decide a winner. If the match is tied after 5 extra legs, a final sudden death leg will be played.

>Day 4 roundup
https://www.pdc.tv/news/2025/07/22/bunting-wins-anderson-tie-break-reach-last-eight-blackpool

Only "upsets" tonight will be Dobey and MVG going out. Would be shocked if Wattimena gets anywhere close to Littler. Opening match is a crapshoot.

Good evening lads, grim setup tonight. Not sure if I can take Littlerwinslol, followed by Autism jobbing to Josh Smug.

>Hittler playing mini-golf
Never change Sky

Gwan Gilding

No way Gilding isn't Jewish

>>149919230
Pretty sure he's Scottish

Evening lads, what are we drinking?

That's gildings mum right?

>>149919142
>Polly dressed up as if she was under witness protection

>three scores of 40-something
>leg 2
Dork is done already

Gilding has the best looking darts

Dork getting angry

>trying double double with opponent on single dart finish
He's going to lose 11-0

This doesn't Van Duijvenbode well for Dirk

>>149919365
Avoided the whitewash, still made a mess of the leg he won

>Dirk won the session
Genuinely surprising

I thought this would be funnier when it came to mind.

>>149919642
>you now remember Simon Whitlock

>leaving 166
Prime boomer moment from Noncefinger

>>149919669
Are you not counting down the days until the Aus/NZ Premier League of Darts brings Whitlock and, idk, Warren French to leisure centres across Adelaide and Christchurch?

>>149919729
For me it's Tim "The Magnet" Pusey

>Dork
embarassing

>Andrew Gilding in post-match interview "I spent the last two days in the hotel room getting stiff"

>the semi-finals of the World Matchplay could have a 40 year old as the youngest player in them
>mfw

Require darts gf

>>149920172

Thank fuck he's playing Littler next, really needs to take a leaf from the Ian White playbook and stop turning up on tv and get back to the floor where he belongs

>>149920228
>Andrew Gilding TV titles: 1
>Andrew Gilding floor titles: 0

Most obvious outcome ever

Dobby is a bummed elf

>>149920312
The Worlds match was the blip in their head to head, Price has usually bummed Dobby. At least he's putting up more of a fight than Dork has just done.

Looking ropey for dopey

>>149920286
Has he really never won a players champ? fuck me lol

>>149920383
Nope. That UK Open win was more recent than his last PC final. His last final of any sort was getting raped 8-0 by Gando on the Euro Tour at the start of May

>price
lol

Unplayable stuff from Price last 3 legs

They’re always banging on about darts being better than ever, but it’s hard to believe when shitters like Dobby can get to the 6th seed

>2-10
That's Hollywood, Baby.

To be fair Price is playing unreal.

Price bottles the record average attempt and ends up with a pathetic 108.73.

Have to feel for Dopey, but his typical "shit the bed on doubles" mannerism kicked in and he got BTFO

Dobey is such a fucking melt isn't he.. absolutely no needle in that flaccid body of his

>busting 127 in leg 1
>Shittler

He's finished

European Championship Wattijobber has turned up, it's over

>Littler getting raped by Relative Unknown
Bazza on suicide watch, quick, get the magnets.

>>149921273
If that 12 darter doesn't change anything you can crown Price champion before the QFs.

BREAKING

>>149921329
IS THERE NO STOPPING THIS NONCE

>Wattijobber
inb4 sulking

>>149921386
11-4 Littler incoming.

>>149921273
Does anyone have the official link of the
>relative unknown
article?

>>149921427
>
Littler getting absolutely battered

>>149921463
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/31320917/peter-wright-european-championship-darts-exit-wattimena/

>>149921463
Not sure if that contains the original image. Here it is, just in case.

>>149921486
>Littler getting absolutely battered
Here's hoping. Gezzy will have to clean up this mess anyway.

>>149921486
While we're at it, does anyone have the origin of the Pietreczko/"DEBAKEL" meme?

>Speedenjobber

It's over for Wattijobber

>>149921486
>>149921548
Thanks lads!

absolute C O L L A P S E

>Eurojobber
>Britjobber

Not enough attacking darts on the Littler throw

Useless eurojobbing prick

>Littler doing the Taylel pocketing gesture after the match

wew does he post on /180/?

Gezzy is so winning this

Wow what a match, i started watching at 7-7. Fair play to Wattimena for not completely bottling it atleast at the end

I have a real knack for not watching a sport for weeks/months and then tuning in for a match like that at such a crazy time

>>149922088
>Fair play to Wattimena for not completely bottling it atleast at the end

he threw fucking shite in the sudden death legs

I backed Wattimena at 7-3

Late 30s jobbers, our response?

Actually felt for Wattijobber there, he was absolutely obliterated yet somehow clung on to win 4 more legs

>>149921566
A German website saying he had the worst Worlds performance ever: https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/146406770/#146409816

>>149922086
Hope he gives Littler the full OOOAAAAH treatment, including a terminally butthurt mong pit.

This next match could get ugly, might be the official start of the MVG retirement tour.

So are these 4 deciding who will get obliterated in the final?

>>149922106
As i said, i started watching when luke equalised... though all things considered with prime littlah breathing down his neck he was okay, that's just how it goes
One minute you're world class next minute it's imposter syndrome or whatever

>>149922178
Recognized the article, got the base image >>149921566

>>149922225
>Aidy
>MVG
>Mensur

why do all the most kino throwers die so young? (Im not talking about current MVG, but prime MVG)

>>149922128
Remember when he lost a shitload of weight around 2020/21? I knew he couldn't stick to it.

>>149921190
>>149921141
>>149921273
state of (you)

Mad how Chud's getting to the final

>>149922386
Even his walk-on is a meme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9V78UbdzWI

>>149922386
Nothing ever happens

littlerwinslol
happy skysportsdartsmas

THAT 150!

dat 150

Is MVG, dare I say it, back?

>rosh wok

it's over

>>149922581
well, prime MVG lasted 3 legs...

>MVG averaging 104.53
I FEEL YOUNG AGAIN

nevermind, we are so back

>>149922581
>>149922634
The eternal cycle

>van autism

>van gherkin

let rock back into the match

Autism cutting it fine there, jeez

I heard MVG had trouble with the misses but this is ridiculous

Gwan Rocky end this bald fuck

>>149922900
lel

Why does the Sky scoreboard randomly break

you may not like it but darts okayers are the peak male physical form. All of them

>>149922976
Too big. Taylor and Littler clearly proves peak dartist is 5’3” and 17st

>come back
>score graphic is broken
meme match

You just get the feeling Rock will surge and blow MVG away

Darts commentary has always been a joke with people like Wayne chatting absolute rubbish over matches. Does anyone think there's a chance for improvement any time soon?

I thought Matt Edgar getting commentary spots was a step in the right direction, but as soon as he started going more mainstream he fell into the trap of playing it safe and just started gobbling the cock of Littler and taking all the PDC approved media stances on issues.

In the run up to these matches for example it was "Price will be a close match, and that's a match. For Littler it'll just be a game for him tonight as he wins, not a match."

And well we've all seen now how that shill opinion has not matched up with reality.

Part used to be alright before he adopted the whole attacking and defensive darts nonsense. Shit commentary is unfortunately a disease that spreads between them though.

>>149923026
jinxed it

>>149923040
Dawson and Part are the only tolerable pairing on Sky.

Modus commentary is fucking dogshit as well.

>>149923040
There’s zero chance. Anyone who starts off promising immediately becomes shite, because that’s what Sky and the PDC want from them.

swear there was a tournament this year where everyone was hitting bullseye

>Josh Cock
Terrible

>>149923082
APOLOGISE for that 152

>>149923058
Or did I?

What are Blackpool citizens like?

E X T R A
T I M E
A G A I N

mvg is stunned

DAT 139 TO SAVE IT
WEWWWWWW

NOT a meme match

>>149923176
the greatest 138 of all time

>>149922900
Took a while for me to get it, but: lel!

>Josh Cock

when does it go to sudden death?

>>149923243
13-13

It's actually over.

Have to say that's a choke from 9-6 up needing just one leg to effectively secure the match.

GWAN ROCK
He seems like a little shithouse, could be a kino player if he keeps getting better

>van Goywen
fraud

ROCKY

He snuffed too much paint this time

No Michael no, this is so not right!

my world cup hero :)

QFs look pretty crazy

Tomorrow:

>Gian van Veen v James Wade
>Stephen Bunting v Jonny Clayton

Remember it's proper long distance legplay darts from now on, best of 31 tomorrow and Friday

>>149921548
>>149922086
>>149922179
>gonna have to stop you there, zoomers won

>when it's Price v the OTHER Unionist
BAH GAWD IT'S GURNEY WITH THE STEEL CHAIR

>>149923381
Corr

>>149923299
>could be a kino player if he keeps getting better
he's already overcome prime mvg, reckon friday will be a walk in the park

>>149923490
>prime mvg

prime (2025) gezzy = occasional littler upset
prime (2025) mvg = taking world cup champion josh "rocky" rock nearly all the way to sudden death