Wright seeks turnaround in Scotland's fortunes in Germany

After Scotland's early exit from Euro 2024, darts prima Peter Wright believes he and Gary Anderson tin present Scottish occurrence successful Germany this weekend.

The duo, some two-time PDC World Championship winners, will again squad up for Scotland astatine nan World Cup of Darts successful Frankfurt.

They person an awesome pedigree astatine nan £450,000 event, having won it together successful 2019 and vanished arsenic runners-up successful 2015, 2018 and 2023.

Wright, who besides sewage his hands connected nan trophy alongside John Henderson 3 years ago, said: "Well, we usually do beautiful well, truthful why not?

"Gary is playing really well, I americium coming backmost to form. If we some conscionable click, which we usually do, I reckon we person sewage a really bully chance.

"We don't for illustration losing. Obviously, we person mislaid nan finals, it is 1 of those things. Those times successful nan final, they were conscionable that small spot better.

"We some judge that we tin triumph it again."

While Anderson is enjoying a bully year, having won a Players Championship and a European Tour event, it has been a mediocre 1 truthful acold for his team-mate.

'Snakebite' Wright has struggled for form, pinch a bottom-placed decorativeness successful this year's Premier League base testament to that.

"Since nan Premier League was complete it was a relief, I conscionable knuckled down," Wright said.

"As soon it was over, I started enjoying nan darts alternatively of putting unit connected myself pinch turning up each week trying to execute and past conscionable looking astatine it going, 'oh different changeable there, I fto him in, I fto him in'.

"Instead of maine moaning astir it, do thing astir it connected nan committee - truthful that is what I americium doing."

As 4th seeds, Scotland do not participate nan fray until Saturday.

"The Netherlands [Michael van Gerwen and Danny Noppert] are going to beryllium beautiful strong, but I don’t deliberation Michael is 100%," Wright said.

"I suppose England [Luke Humphries and Michael Smith] person sewage a beautiful bully chance, but I deliberation 2 accelerated players playing together, it could backfire, but you ne'er know.

"A wildcard? Probably Australia again because they person won it [in 2022] and they person sewage nan experience. Simon [Whitlock] will conscionable move up and deed his 180s and past Damon [Heta] will travel down and deed his doubles, truthful I deliberation they will beryllium dangerous."

The darts crowds are usually beautiful boisterous, and pinch Germany still hosting football's European Championship, things could beryllium lively erstwhile Wright and Anderson return to nan oche astatine nan Eissporthalle.

Wright added: "It is usually a awesome crowd location anyway, but if you get nan incorrect shot crowd successful location past they tin make it beautiful awkward, particularly for Scotland.

"Pick nan trophy up astatine nan extremity of it, that is it and unopen them up."