Who Are the Best Bets in This Week’s Premier League Darts?
The Cazoo Premier League darting action comes from Rotterdam, Holland. The fixture is a homecoming for Michael van Gerwen. Last year the Dutch hero made the mini-final at Rotterdam Ahoy Arena but lost 5-6 to Joe Cullen in the decider.
Dimitri Van den Bergh, Chris Dobey, and Jonny Clayton made a fruitless trip to Wigan over the weekend to play in Players Championship events. With seven days between last week’s Premier League fixture in Brighton and this Thursday’s action in Rotterdam, Wright, Price, Smith, Aspinall and van Gerwen may be a little fresher.
Gerwyn Price has won 13 of his last 15 Premier League games. ©Kieran Cleeves/PDC
Price is the man to beat right now. He has taken three of the last five Premier League nightly finals. With an additional two European Tour events, his current record reads 23 wins from the last 26 games played.
Read below how the bookmakers believe Thursday night’s Sky Sports televised action will pan out. We look at where the best betting value may lay and suggest what bets could give armchair punters a winning night.
Chris Dobey (13/10) vs Jonny Clayton (8/11)
Dobey has lost his only nightly match for the past three Premier League Nights. Clayton won two of those events – in Berlin and Birmingham. Dobey’s downfall appears to be his checkouts, as his last three averages have been an impressive 99.1, 106.5, and 103.3.
Clayton won the only 2023 Premier Leagues face-off between this pair 6-1 despite Dobey recording a 101.6 average. Clayton’s consistency rightly makes him a favorite. But, from a betting viewpoint, bet365 has overstepped the mark in making Dobey 4/5 to average more than 95.5 in this game.
Michael Smith (8/5) vs Gerwyn Price (8/13)
Gerwyn Price has devastated his Premier League rivals recently. His form in the competition during the past month reads: W-W-W-W-W-W-W-L-W-L-W-W-W. In the same period, Smith’s results read: L-L-W-W-L-L-W-W-L. Price has also won five of his last seven encounters with Michael Smith, so it could be argued his odds are still generous.
In a race to nine legs – which all Premier League nights are except for the Play-Offs – it is noteworthy that none of this pair’s last nine meetings have gone to a 6-5 or 6-4 scoreline. Consequently, the recommendation is a 6-3 and 6-2 result in favor of Price. The best darts betting sites quote these outcomes at 6/1 and 7/1 respectively.
Michael van Gerwen (1/3) vs Nathan Aspinall (5/2)
Table-topper, van Gerwen missed a match-dart against Gerwyn Price in last week’s semi-final. He could have possibly claimed his fourth nightly final. Aspinall has not looked like claiming a trophy so far, and his only final came at the start of February.
Gutted to lose after missing a match dart, but fair play to @Gezzyprice he put me under pressure in a fantastic game. The fans were phenomenal in Brighton tonight 💚💚 pic.twitter.com/suuEH7aJmP
— Michael Van Gerwen (@MvG180) April 13, 2023
Winning nine of their last ten meetings, van Gerwen should have this under control. A 6-nil drumming in their most recent face-off will have hurt Aspinall and left scars. He could crack again, and that makes the line on this three-dart average, set at 96.5, look very high.
Our advice is to take Aspinall to record a figure under the line. Odds of 5/6 are available with the best darts betting sites on the outcome.
Dimitri Van den Burgh (6/5) vs Peter Wright (4/6)
This pair sits at the bottom of the league table, and a qualifying spot in the Play-Offs looks a forlorn hope. Wright has shown better recent form after a dreadful start, and he displayed a lot of tenacity in both victory and defeat last week.
Wright also delivered plenty around the treble-20 registering six 180s against Nathan Aspinall. Most darts betting sites offer 6/4 about him producing more 180s than Van den Burgh in this one. With his upswing in fortunes, Wright might just deliver a winning bet in this market.
