The Sport Recife Courier
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Vintage Lucas Moura — 8.73
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.73, and nobody on the pitch better.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Ryan Francisco, 19, steals the show — 7.68
Marked 7.68 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Ferreirinha runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market7 Sep 2026
Shakhter come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Sport Recife did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market7 Sep 2026
Young has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sport Recife they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Dudu in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sport Recife this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Artur falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
One of their own: Ryan Francisco
He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match5 Sep 2026
Lucas Moura sends Sport Recife past Corinthians
It finished 2‑0, and it was Lucas Moura’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sport Recife.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Enzo Díaz
- Squad André Silva is no longer first choice
- Squad A place in the month's best eleven for Cauly