Leaders Palmeiras visit bottom side Vasco, aiming to extend away run | OneFootball

Palmeiras takes the field this Thursday to face Vasco in a match for the fifth round of the Brazilian Championship. The ball gets rolling at 7:30 p.m. (Brasília time), at Estádio São Januário, in Rio de Janeiro (RJ). The team from São Paulo enters the field to defend its best unbeaten streak as a visitor this season.

Counting matches from the Campeonato Paulista and the Brazilian Championship, Palmeiras is coming off three consecutive victories: Corinthians (Paulistão, 1-0), Internacional (3-1, Brasileirão), and Novorizontino (Paulistão, 2-1). In total, this year, playing away from home, Verdão has four wins, two losses, and one draw.

The Palmeiras team is unbeaten in four away games in the Brasileirão, with two victories in 2025 (3-0 against Atlético-MG and 3-1 against Ceará) and a draw and a win in 2026 (2-2 with Atlético-MG and 3-1 against Internacional).

Clash of Opposites

The match brings together teams experiencing very different moments in the Brazilian Championship. Palmeiras is unbeaten in the competition and leads the table with ten points. Vasco, on the other hand, sits in 20th place and has yet to win in the tournament.

Palmeiras is a tough visitor for Vasco

Palmeiras is unbeaten in 14 matches against Vasco, all in the Brazilian Championship. There have been 10 wins and four draws since the last defeat, in 2015. This is the longest unbeaten run in the history of this matchup, surpassing the 12-match streak without defeat by Palmeiras between 1951 and 1959.

As a visitor, Verdão hasn’t lost to their rival in eight matches, with six wins and two draws. These games were held at Maracanã (RJ), Raulino de Oliveira (RJ), Brasília (DF), and São Januário (RJ), where Verdão won the last four encounters.

Palmeiras is coming off five straight victories over Vasco (one in 2023, two in 2024, and two in 2025), matching the streak achieved between 1993 and 1996, and trailing only the nine consecutive wins between 1965 and 1970.

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