📊 Drop zone shake-up, new chase for leaders after Sunday’s games

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

After all, following Sunday’s matches (17th), only Mirassol vs Cruzeiro remains, which will take place 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 turf.

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 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 witnessing history being made. 

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

This time, at Beira-Rio—the same venue as the upcoming second 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 defeated Botafogo 1-0 at Nilton Santos.

📊 See the updated Brasileirão standings

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

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

The away victory also brought Grêmio closer to rivals Inter and put even more distance between them and the relegation zone.

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

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.

📸 YASUYOSHI CHIBA