Tapes Up: Diamonds lose by just 2 points.

Thank you to George English and the Diamonds media team for the info and pic.

Leicester Lions 46
Newcastle Diamonds 44
Premier League

Top Scorers

Leicester Lions - Kauko Nieminen 12 1, Magnus Karlsson 9 1
Newcastle - Richie Worrall 18 1, Ludvig Lindgren 9 1

Last night the Premier League's two top teams came head to head in what was expected to be a Titanic struggle, and so it proved.

The Diamonds could have had the match knocked into a cocked hat well before the last heat decider had it not been for their trio of expected high flyers suffering disappointing return with the so-called lower-lights, Ludvig Lindgren and the two Worrall twins scoring 35 of their total of 44!

Richie Worrall took an electrifying win in Heat One well ahead of the field but number one Stuart Robson struggled to get on terms at the back in the 3-3 share whilst twin Steve Worrall took Heat Two in equally impressive style despite some major pressure from Jan Graversen behind in the Diamonds' 2-4 putting them 5-7 up.

Kauko Nieminen and Jari Makinen made short shrift of Mark Lemon and Christian Henry who relinquished a home 5-1 which put Leicester back in front 10-8 before another great win from Richie Worrall from the gate in the fourth levelled the match with Lindgren in third.

Steve Worrall continued his family's great form taking Heat Six, blasting round the outside of the field on bend two and with Lindgren taking second the Diamonds' 1-5 which put them back in the lead 17-19.

Lasse Bjerre and Simon Nielsen hit a solid 4-2 past Lemon and Henry in Heat Seven to level it all up again before Lindgren jetted away from the gate to win by a mile with Richie Worrall tucking in for second to again put the determined Diamonds back into the lead 22-26.

That gap was extended to six after Lindgren came out again an took Heat Nine in style to zip past the field on bend two with Steve Worrall's third place all important too, but again Lemon and Henry conceded a 4-2 in the 10th easily by Magnus Karlsson.

Nieminen and Graversen took the 5-1 from gate to flag in Heat 12 with Steve Worrall taking third and Lemon last with the match tied once more 36-36, whilst a critical 5-1 from Karlsson and Bjerre over Robson and an unexpectedly subdued Lindgren put Leicester 41-37 up with two races to go.

Richie Worrall again stormed Heat 14 whist Henry battled well in third place, pressurising Nielsen all the way leaving the score with one race left at a tantalising 43-41, but whist Heat 15 was again expertly won by the brilliant Richie Worrall, Lindgren, who tried every move possible to pass Nieminen in third, just couldn't manage the pass to leave the narrowest of wins in the Lions' den.

Team manager George English said: "We could have - and to be frank - should have had this match won with ease tonight, but I cannot knock the performances of the utterly brilliant Richie Worrall who was spectacular tonight, his brother Steve and Ludvig Lindgren who kept us in the hunt whilst the rest of the lads are all very well experienced and know all too well that tonight wasn't good enough and I know they'll be working on making sure they never have a night like that again. It's very disappointing not to take a good solid win here tonight."