"If he doesn't buck his ideas up, he might miss out on the play-offs" - Dan Dawson concerned by Michael van Gerwen's Premier League Darts form

Michael van Gerwen is not having his best period in Premier League Darts. After winning three weekly titles in a row, 'Mighty Mike' has recorded just one win in the last six weeks.

His comfortable lead at the top of the standings had vanished like snow in the sun and now Van Gerwen is in fourth place. Sky Sports commentator Dan Dawson is worried about the Dutchman's form.

''Van Gerwen was poor. Neither of them were that good in that game, Littler was just a bit better. And I don't think he was that brilliant against Aspinall - he was beatable," Dawson says on the Love the Darts podcast, referring to last Thursday night.

According to Dawson, the omens are not favourable either. "I don't really know what's going on or where he's at. He was doing things in that game with Littler that I don't really understand," he analyses. "You expect MVG to come good, and he did in this Premier League by winning three weeks on the trot, but he has been poor since then. If you look at the last two years in the Premier League, his second half of each campaign has not been good. He only won four games in the last seven weeks last year and he only won six in seven the year before. He dropped down the league."

"It's Rob Cross and Michael Smith that are closer to that top four, and right now it's Van Gerwen sat on the precipice. Luke Humphries is playing brilliantly, Littler is playing brilliantly and Nathan Aspinall has leapfrogged him," Dawson concludes. "He is in danger. If he doesn't buck his ideas up, he might miss out on the play-offs - which has happened before but is a rarity."