📊 Drop zone shifts, new chase for leaders after Sunday’s matches

The 20th round of the 2025 Brasileirão is practically over.

After all, following Sunday’s matches (17th), only Mirassol vs Cruzeiro remains, which will be played this Monday (18th) in the interior of São Paulo.

And today’s four matches showed that the visiting teams felt very much at home on enemy territory.

At Arena MRV, in Belo Horizonte, for example, Grêmio showed their immortal spirit to defeat Atlético-MG 3-1 in a match with four red cards.

And what can we say about Santos 0 x 6 Vasco at MorumBIS? Sure, it wasn’t Vila Belmiro, but there were 54,000 fans at São Paulo’s stadium who witnessed history being made.

If you want to know EVERYTHING about the humiliating defeat suffered by Peixe, which included Neymar in tears, a coach’s dismissal, and shock on social media, just click here!

And in the second match of the “trilogy” Flamengo vs Internacional, the Rubro-Negros won again.

This time, at Beira-Rio—the same venue for the return leg of the Conmebol Libertadores round of 16 next Wednesday (20th)—Flamengo beat Colorado 3-1, with Arrascaeta making history in the Brasileirão.

Finally, to complete the “walk in the park” for the visitors this Sunday (17th), Palmeiras beat Botafogo 1-0 at Nilton Santos.

📊 Check out the updated Brasileirão standings

With today’s results, Palmeiras overtook Cruzeiro and claimed second place in the Brasileirão, preventing leaders Flamengo from pulling away.

Botafogo, meanwhile, remained in fifth place and is now four points away from the G-4.

The away win also brought Grêmio closer to rivals Inter and put more distance between them and the relegation zone (Z-4).

And speaking of the relegation zone, Vasco escaped trouble, leaving Vitória among the bottom four in the championship.

📸 YASUYOSHI CHIBA