Cruzeiro close to milestone in Brasileirão, see the details | OneFootball

With a solid campaign and few setbacks, Cruzeiro reaches the final rounds of the Brasileirão close to achieving a significant feat in the era of the points system.

Even after seeing their title hopes crumble due to too many draws, Leonardo Jardim’s team is on track to record one of the seasons with the fewest defeats since 2003.

Raposa has only five losses in 36 games—the same number as Flamengo—and is the team with the fewest defeats in the second half of the season, losing only to Vasco, in Rio de Janeiro.

With two matches remaining, the team can finish the championship with, at most, seven setbacks.

If they don’t lose again, they will surpass their performance in 2013, the year of their third championship, when they suffered six defeats.

Palmeiras in 2023 remains the benchmark, with only three setbacks, followed by São Paulo (2005), Palmeiras (2018), and Flamengo (2019), who lost four times.

At the moment, Cruzeiro shares the group of teams that have already finished seasons with five defeats—a feat achieved by São Paulo (2008), Fluminense (2012), Corinthians (2015), Internacional (2022), and Botafogo (2024). Among these, only Inter did not finish as champions.

The strong blue campaign went through some turbulence at the start of the year, but gained momentum with the arrival of Leonardo Jardim, right at the beginning of the Brasileirão.

Cruzeiro fought for the top of the table until the penultimate round and remains alive in the fight for the Copa do Brasil.

The team’s defeats came against Vasco (second half), Internacional, Bragantino, Ceará, and Santos, the latter three in the first half of the season.

The team will end its participation in the championship facing Botafogo, at Mineirão, and Santos, at Vila Belmiro.

Despite being hard to beat—with 11 games unbeaten—Raposa ended up penalized by the excess of draws: there are 12, a number that shares the lead with Mirassol, Atlético-MG, and Vitória.

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