Orange Cup clash at darts – Telegraaf.nl

Amsterdam –

Never they met at a world championship against, but today it’s finally happening. The darts world looks forward to the clash between former world champions Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld

.

Photo: The Telegraph

Raymond van Barneveld Photo:Livedarts

The towering favorite Van Gerwen, so also underline the odds with the British bookmakers. In a triumph of Mighty Mike the gambler gets just 1.16 euros for every euro back. When someone in a stunt of Barney believes is an inlaid euro at a victory almost sixfold.

The tone is put by Van Gerwen, who in the second round against Darren Webster its highest average (109.23) ever at the World Cup. ,, My best performance ever at this stage. I hope I can continue this line because I will need to Raymond, “realizes the 26-year-old Dutchman keenly. “We like to play together and often bring out the best in each other up.”

Where Van Gerwen is now seen as the best Dutch darts player ever, Barneveld Van with five world titles (four times BDO and once PDC) still remains the most successful in our country. “But

” Lead Heavy task for darts rivals’

He does not like me higher on the stand rankings, “Van made Gerwen, the current number one in the world, as the current difference clearly. His rival has now been dropped to 16th place.

Of course, they both emphasize that it is a “heavy task” to reach the quarterfinals. Yet Van Gerwen is the player with the most confidence. “When I play well, I win Raymond,” it certainly sounds from his mouth. But opponents underestimated, he will never do. “That’s the most dangerous thing you can do. You must treat everybody the same. I must devote myself again to 200 percent. “

At Van Barneveld tonight in Ally Pally be pretty special forces. The birth of his grandson Mason felt the day before yesterday as a liberation. By Stephen Bunting had the 48-year-old grandfather to lose in his own words, but he lived on perfectly. “I kept thinking; I’m not going to lose on the day my grandson was born. “Now he wants more, like Van Gerwen. For both true end only one thing and that is the world. With less take these Dutch darts heroes not settle

.

class=”clear”