The Sport Recife Courier
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Luciano, 33, rolls back the years — 8.21
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.21 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Sport Recife
Jonathan Calleri was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Gustavo Miranda at Sport Recife
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Gustavo Miranda is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Lucas Moura
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Cauly runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Jonathan Calleri is still paying for one afternoon at Sport Recife
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Match19 Sep 2026
Sport Recife and Mirassol take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
The chances came and went for Jonathan Calleri
4 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A day to forget for Gustavo Santana
Marked 5.71, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
In brief
- Loan watch Nahuel Ferraresi keeps scoring at Botafogo
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Lucas Ramon