Darts Betting Tips: Goldfinger to star in boosted double

There's eight more games at the PDC World Darts Championship on Saturday and we are back with another boost for you.

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This time, we've got a interesting double for Saturday including the former UK Open champion Andrew Gilding. Here are his darts betting tips...

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There’s very little separating these two in the market. The experience of Gilding versus the raw talent that Crabtree possesses. The Grand Slam was some good experience for Cam, it looked like he was going to find his way through the group stages when he hammered Jonny Clayton 5-1 in his group opener. However, this was followed by a 5-4 defeat to Danny Noppert, then a 5-1 defeat to Lukas Wenig in a straight shootout for progression into the knockout stages.

I think Crabtree has plenty of potential, he’s already shown some, winning five titles on the Development Tour this year. My one worry with him is performing under pressure - his limited appearances on the Euro Tour haven’t matched the same level he can produce on the floor. He crumbled in that deciding leg against Noppert at the Grand Slam and he averaged just 84 in a huge match against Wenig. This is his Worlds debut and there could be nerves for Cam, which he’s looked pretty vulnerable to so far in his young career.

It’s been another quiet-ish year for Gilding, it normally is to be honest, with the exception of winning the UK Open in 2023. A decent run to the Quarter Finals of the World Matchplay was the highlight this year, but he’s always likely to average above 90 and he still needs to be respected. Goldfinger is averaging almost three points higher than Crabtree for the year and has still averaged over a point more than his young opponent over the last three months. Crabtree likes to get on with it but that won’t be as easy here as he has to contend with the methodical pace of Gilding. It’s a real test for Shazam, it’s one I think he’ll just come up short in and I think Gilding’s experience will prove the difference in what could be a tight match.

Gabriel Clemens to hit most 180s vs Alex Spellman @ 2/5

Before we go into talking about the 180s market, it’s probably worth highlighting the form of these two. It’s been a tough year for Gabriel, winning less than half his matches in 2025 at 48.54%, it’s got alarmingly worse recently too, winning a measly 30% on his matches in the last three months. His overall average has been on the decline too, sitting at 91.49 for the year but only 89.70 over the last three months. He was a surprise semi-finalist here in 2023 and was tipped to kick on from that point, unfortunately for the big German, things have went the opposite way for him if anything.

Spellman is one of the North American players I rate the most, but it was a horror show for the North Carolina man at the recent Grand Slam in Wolverhampton - Alex slumped to three heavy defeats with averages of just 77, 85 and 83. Normally I’d have fancied him to take at least a set off a struggling Clemens but there’s a lot of doubt as to how much that Grand Slam outing will have scarred the American and his confidence.

Therefore, the safest approach was to put full focus into the 180s. It’s another stat in which Clemens has been on the decline in recent months, but he’s still producing a far better rate on them than Spellman is - Gabriel is averaging 0.23 180s per leg the last three months, compared to 0.14 for Spellman. For the year, Clemens is hitting 180s at almost double the rate than that of Spellman. This could be a slog of a match but I fancy the German Giant to prevail on the maximums, against The Jackal who only managed two 180s in three matches in his last televised tournament.

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