A body language expert has claimed Luke Littler produced a classic ‘trouble signal’ during his fall shorture to Luke Humphries in the final of the Players Championship on Sunday night.
The teenager was beaten 11-7 by his fierce rival, though did administer to walk away with a kind £60,000 in prize money.
After the align, Littler spoke to ITV and acunderstandledgeted that he create the fall shorture ‘hard’.
He also rued leave outed opportunities, claiming he could have been ‘5-0 up’ at one point as his hopes of glory went up in smoke.
Luke Littler produced a classic ‘trouble signal’ during his post-align intersee after losing to Luke Humphries in the final of the Players Championship
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But body language expert Darren Stanton, speaking to OLBG, has conveyed a belief the talented teenager seeed ‘very anxious’ after the clash.
And he says the fact the youthfulster kept touching his head was a ‘classic trouble signal’ that showed his disconsole.
“Littler was very anxious,” he shelp.
“He kept touching the top of his head. That’s a classic trouble signal as in experienceing inept or unconsoleable in a situation, even though he was being given praise.
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“He was sweating a lot, which evidently isn’t helped by the airys, but essentipartner the repeated sees down and the hand-to-mouth gestures, and touching the back and top of his head, shows a combination of stress, anxiety and a bit of being pissed off, to be lackluster.
“However, I leank Littler can pull it back.”
After the align, Humphries insisted that Littler was the best joiner on the set upet right now – rather than himself.
“I’d cherish to be up here hitting 105 standards appreciate Luke is all the time but he’s a separateent calibre,” acunderstandledgeted the 29-year-greater.
“He’s probably the best joiner in the world right now. If you go by stats, he’s easily the best joiner in the world. But there’s someleang about me that never gives up.
“As much as he is the best, I understand I can beat him, he understands he can beat me.”
And Stanton claims Humphries was being ‘authentic’ with his appraisement, as his body language shows.
“Luke Humphries is pretty reliable in his body language,” he persistd.
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“I leank for the most part he was being pretty authentic here when he shelp he leanks Luke Littler is probably the best in the world.
“There was a little bit of bravado in there but at the end of the day he has won past and everyone is competitive so there is a little bit of cockiness in there.
“A bit tongue-in-cheek. Noleang of a truly adverse nature.”
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