Sport Recife 5-3 Santa Cruz: result and report

Serie A · Sunday 11 September 2016

Result

Sport Recife 5-3 Santa Cruz

Serie A · Sunday 11 September 2016, 19:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Sport Recife · Santa Cruz · Serie A predictions

Sport Recife 5-3 Santa Cruz: match report

Sport Recife beat Santa Cruz 5-3 in Serie A on Sunday 11 September 2016. The half-time score was 0-1.

Keno opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Sport Recife's goals came from Durval (53'), Rodney Wallace (70'), Luis Carlos Ruiz (80'), Vinícius Araújo (90') and Everton Felipe (90+2'). Santa Cruz scored through Keno (6'), João Paulo (50') and Bruno Moraes (72').

Discipline: Sport Recife received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Santa Cruz received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.

Going into the game Sport Recife were 17th on 24 points from 23 and Santa Cruz 16th on 25 points from 23. Sport Recife went on to finish that season 17th with 44 points, and Santa Cruz 18th with 36.

Sport Recife lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Santa Cruz in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Luis Carlos Ruiz Morales of Sport Recife (8.9), ahead of Keno (8.2).

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 6'Goal · KenoSanta Cruz · 0-1
  • 50'Goal · João PauloSanta Cruz · 0-2
  • 53'Goal · DurvalSport Recife · 1-2
  • 55'Yellow card · Luis Carlos RuizSport Recife
  • 67'Yellow card · DerleySanta Cruz
  • 70'Goal · Rodney WallaceSport Recife · 2-2
  • 72'Goal · Bruno MoraesSanta Cruz · 2-3
  • 80'Goal · Luis Carlos RuizSport Recife · 3-3
  • 85'Yellow card · ApodiSport Recife
  • 85'Yellow card · ApodiSport Recife
  • 86'Red card · DerleySanta Cruz
  • 86'Red card · Diego SouzaSport Recife
  • 90'Goal · Vinícius AraújoSport Recife · 4-3
  • 90+2'Goal · Everton FelipeSport Recife · 5-3

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Sport Recife 0, draws 1, Santa Cruz 0.

Team news

Sport Recife line-up (4-2-3-1)

Magrão, Durval, Matheus Ferraz, Rodney Wallace, Samuel Xavier, Rithely, Neto Moura, Paulo Roberto, Diego Souza, Rogério, Luis Carlos Ruiz Morales

Santa Cruz line-up (4-2-3-1)

Tiago Cardoso, Léo Moura, Neris, Danny Morais, Allan Vieira, Uillian Correia, Derley, João Paulo, Keno, Matías Pisano, Bruno Moraes