Corinthians 3-1 Sport Recife: result and report

Corinthians 3-1 Sport Recife

Serie A · Saturday 5 August 2017, 22:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Corinthians · Sport Recife · Serie A predictions

Corinthians defeated Sport Recife 3-1 in Serie A on Saturday 5 August 2017. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Guilherme Arana opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Corinthians's goals came from Guilherme Arana (9'), Rodriguinho (46') and Pedro Henrique (66'). Sport Recife scored through Thallyson (83').

Discipline: Corinthians received 1 yellow card; Sport Recife received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Corinthians were 1st on 44 points from 18 and Sport Recife 6th on 28 points from 18. Corinthians went on to finish that season 1st with 72 points, and Sport Recife 15th with 45.

Corinthians lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Sport Recife in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Fagner of Corinthians (8.2), ahead of Clayson (8.1).

Going into the match Corinthians's last five read W-D-W-D-D and Sport Recife's D-W-L-W-L.