WINNER Jose de Sousa closes out a 10-8 win over Luke Humphries to book his place in the Cazoo European Championship quarter-finals - despite FIVE ton-plus finishes from the Englishman. De Sousa now plays Rob Cross on Sunday afternoon in the last eight.
De Sousa edges past Humphries in European Championship thriller
PDCSaturday, 16 October 2021 at 16:35
Jose de Sousa is through to the Quarter-Finals of the 2021 European Championship after seeing off Luke Humphries in a thrilling victory.
De Sousa hit six 180’s and a 96 average to claim his spot in the latter stages as Humphries came back from 9-6 down to push him at 10-8.
De Sousa defied a 104 average from Humphries early on to go 3-1 and take the early impetus.
He kept Humphries at arms length despite ‘Cool Hand’ continuing to hit back with De Sousa going on to lead 5-4.
But after Humphries missed 170 on the bull, De Sousa produced a hammer blow with 123 on the bull and he stretched his lead to 8-4.
As the finishing line tolled for De Sousa, Humphries though offered up one final salvo with a 146 checkout to break throw.
He squandered an opportunity to go further towards De Sousa though and he hit a 66 checkout to go one away at 9-6.
A brilliant 160 checkout saw Humphries at 9-7 and he further saved his skin with a 74 finish at 9-8 but finally De Sousa got over the line at 10-8.
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