Darts results: Alan Soutar and Jose de Sousa produce special comebacks at the PDC World Championship

Alan Soutar and Jose de Sousa produced remarkable comebacks to reach the last 16 of the Cazoo World Darts Championship.

De Sousa touched a high of 25/1 in-running before producing a remarkable comeback to defeat Ryan Seale 4-3.

The Special One, who came from 2-0 down to beat Simon Whitlock in the previous round, was heading for the exit when Searle stormed into a 3-0 lead and had the darts in the deciding leg of the fourth set.

De Sousa kept the match alive with a clinical 92 checkout but it looked as though it was merely a stay of execution when Heavy Metal when 2-1 up in the fifth and eyed up tops with his last dart in hand for a match-winning 120 finish.

Searle missed on the inside and that would be his last chance to seal his place in the fourth round as the Portuguese ace punished him to pull another set back before taking the next two by 3-1 scorelines.

De Sousa averaged 91.75 compared to his opponent’s 87.51 and hit nine of the 15 180s, but he’ll need to brush up on his finishing against Gerwyn Price in the next round having spurned 43 of his 59 attempts at doubles.

In the next match on the oche, Danny Noppert was in cruise control when taking six of the opening seven legs to move into a 2-0 set lead over Soutar and averaging well over 100 in the process.

But out of nowhere, the Scottish fireman found the heroism of his day job as Noppert suffered an alarming drop slump in form during another Ally Pally comeback.

Soutar won 12 of the next 14 legs played to dominate the next four sets and reach the last 16 just like he did on debut 12 months ago.

Soots thrilled the crowd with a 152 checkout that clinched the fifth set 3-1 and then weighed in with another stunner from 130 on his way to wrapping up the sixth without reply.

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