Sport Recife will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 11 points behind Santa Cruz.
These teams are so close in distance that this match is special, a derby with local pride the main prize.
Sport Recife form and stats
Sport Recife have played 4 Pernambucano 1 games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-2-0 (wins-draws-losses). In general it's been a long time since Recife tasted defeat here at Estádio Adelmar da Costa Carvalho, as they have taken at least one point from their last 14 home games in the league.
Nothing to worry about in defence for Recife, as their goalkeeper Luan Polli Gomes has completely shut out the opponents for 192 minutes in the Pernambucano 1.
Sport Recife lost their last game at Ceará after a 1-2 scoreline. Before that, Sport Recife had a home game versus Santa Cruz which ended with a victory 1-0.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Confianca are coming to town in three days.
A decent goal production from Recife in their home games so far, with 7 goals from 4 league matches. Recife have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 2 goals.
Santa Cruz form and stats
The seven points Santa Cruz have gathered from their first three away trips in the Pernambucano 1 is impressive and could lead to great things if the form continues.
Santa had fun at their own home (Estádio Adelmar da Costa Carvalho) last time out, beating Decisao 2-1. Jeremais and Fabiano scored. That result followed a home victory 3-0 versus Botafogo PB in the Copa do Nordeste.
The schedule is very tough for Santa Cruz now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Copa do Nordeste game at River is waiting in only three days.
The visiting Santa have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 4 goals from 3 games. Santa's manager I. Schülle has created a great defensive setup working very nicely in away games with only 1 conceded goal. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Sport Recife victories, three draws and three Santa Cruz wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, seven matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  W. Lima Silva e Silva 4 goals |  D. Bittencourt Morais 2 goals | F. da Silva Souza 2 goals |
Sport Recife missing players
Santa Cruz missing players
| Sport Recife | Santa Cruz | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | 7 | 1 | Scored | S | 2 | 4 | 14 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 75% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 67% | 88% |
| 62% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 75% |
| 25% | 25% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 50% |
| 12% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 50% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 38% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 67% | 62% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 12% |
| 6 | 5 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 5 | 6.2 |
| 3.2 | 3.2 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7 | 5.3 | 3.8 |
| 2.2 | 2.2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.7 | 2.2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 94 | 51 | 15 | Total Shots | T S | 8 | 30 | 104 |
| 28 | 16 | 5 | Shots on Target | S O | 6 | 15 | 45 |
| 32% | 44% | 20% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 27% | 31% |
- Santa Cruz has the fewest conceded goals (1) away
- Santa Cruz has the fewest conceded goals (3)
- Santa Cruz has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (0)
- Santa Cruz has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0)
- Santa Cruz has the most clean sheets (5)
- Santa Cruz has the most scored goals in the first half (8)
- Santa Cruz has the the best goal difference (+11)
- Santa Cruz have not yet lost a game.
- Santa Cruz have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Santa Cruz have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Santa Cruz is in the best form (5-1-0)
- Sport Recife has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2)
- Sport Recife has the most dropped points from leading position (9)
- Sport Recife have not yet lost a game at home.
- Sport Recife have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Sport Recife have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Sport Recife haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Santa Cruz | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 22 |
| 2 | Salgueiro | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 16 |
| 3 | Retro | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| 4 | Nautico | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| 5 | Sport Recife | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | Afogados | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | -1 | 10 |
| 7 | Central | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -1 | 10 |
| 8 | Petrolina | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -5 | 7 |
| 9 | Decisao | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | -13 | 4 |
| 10 | Academica Vitoria | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | -7 | 2 |