World Cup of Darts: England's Luke Littler and Luke Humphries set up clash with Wales in quarters with 8-5 win over Spain

England’s Luke Littler and Luke Humphries set up a quarter-final clash with Wales as they got their first ever win in an 8-5 showing against Spain’s Cristo Reyes and Jose Justicia in Frankfurt.

The target for England was simply to win in what is Littler and Humphries' second time as a partnership on this stage after crashing out in 2025 at the hands of Germany.

This time around, world No 1 Littler and world No 2 Humphries got the win over the line but still have room for improvement after hitting just eight out of 28 attempts at double.

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"That was probably about six out of 10. We knew it was going to be that way, that we wouldn't average what we do in the Premier League," Humphries told Sky Sports.

"I'm proud of the way we fought back. It wasn't the worst performance in the world. It wasn't our best, but having got through our first game, we can relax and play how we know we can tomorrow."

"Like Luke said, 6 out of 10. We know we can win on this stage together now, so tomorrow afternoon we can just throw our darts and do what we do," added Littler.

England looked comfortable early on as they raced into a 3-0 lead but Spain, led by Reyes, were having none of it.

The underdogs took out a 12-darter and two 14-darters to level the score with three legs on the spin, England holding their throw in the seventh leg to go into the break with a leg advantage.

The next crucial moment came in the 10th leg when Littler took out D6 for a break of throw to move 6-4 ahead and when Humphries took out 88 on D7 to put England one leg from the last eight, they survived missing a raft of match darts to eventually win with an 89 checkout on D5 thanks to Littler.

They will come up against 2025 finalists Jonny Clayton with his new partner Nick Kenny after the former came up with two decisive 141 checkouts to battle to an 8-5 victory over USA's Stowe Buntz and Adam Sevada.

Netherlands' MVG and Van Veen hold off Sweden

Netherlands' new partnership of world No 3 Gian van Veen and world No 4 Michael van Gerwen were pushed all the way in an 8-6 victory over Sweden's Jeffrey de Graaf and Oskar Lukasiak.

It looked like it was going to be plain sailing for the new Dutch duo as they romped into a 3-0 lead but then Sweden won four legs in a row including a massive 155 checkout from Lukasiak to go 4-3 ahead.

Netherlands managed to regather and found their scoring, MVG doubling incredibly well, but Sweden would not go away as they broke the throw to bring the score to 7-6.

However, a decisive break in the 13th leg, when Van Gerwen took out 70 on D16, wrapped up the crucial win.

They will now take on host nation Germany after they delighted a partisan crowd in Frankfurt once again by holding off a furious fight back from Czechia's Karel Sedlacek and Adam Gawlas.

The Germans were 6-2 up but Czechia won three out of the next four legs to get the game to 7-6.

However, the home favourites then scored incredibly well against the throw in the 14th leg and took out an 11-darter, Martin Schindler pinning a maximum and the winning D16, to ensure they made it to Sunday's action once again.

Reigning champs Rock and Gurney show fight

Reigning champions, Northern Ireland's Josh Rock and Daryl Gurney, mounted a huge comeback against Belgium's Mike De Decker and Dimitri Van den Bergh to fight from 5-2 down to win the match with a 102 finish on D16 in a last-leg thriller.

The early stages of the contest were all about Belgium but then as Van den Bergh's scoring fell away, Rock surged before Gurney took his moment to take the big finish in the final leg.

They will take on Latvia's Madars Razma and Valters Melderis who, for the first time in their history at the World Cup of Darts, made it through to the quarter-finals in a last-leg thrilling 8-7 win over France's Thibault Tricole and Nicolas Thuillier.

Scotland's new dynamic duo lay down marker

Fourth seed Scotland's Gary Anderson and Cameron Menzies ran riot in an 8-0 whitewash victory over Norway's Cor Dekker and Kent Sivertsen.

The performance was a real statement, the Scots clinching four breaks of throw and near perfection on the outer ring as they averaged just under 100.

In the quarter-finals on Sunday, they will face Republic of Ireland's Willie O'Connor and Mickey Mansell after they battled past Poland's Krzysztof Ratajski and Sebastian Bialecki in an 8-5 victory.

Ireland had romped into a 5-2 lead but the Poles the took out three legs in a row to level the match at 5-5. O'Connor and Mansell found some strong doubling though and with a crucial break on throw in the 12th leg, they gave themselves the chance to throw for a spot in the quarters which the latter took out on D9.

What's next?

Sunday's afternoon session, which is live on Sky Sports Action from 12pm, sees

• Scotland vs Republic of Ireland
• England vs Wales
• Northern Ireland vs Latvia
• Netherlands vs Germany

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