How it happened
Geovanni Banguera was the reason Deportivo Pasto kept a clean sheet. The home goalkeeper made six saves, dealing with every shot Fortaleza FC put on target, and finished with a match rating of 7.9, the highest on the pitch.
The match at the Estadio Departamental Libertad, refereed by Bryan Loayza, was goalless at half-time and stayed that way. There were no goals and no red cards, with kick-off at 19:00 UTC on a clear evening at 15C.
The visitors carried more of the threat. Pasto, sitting four places higher in the table, did not register a shot on target all evening.
The numbers
Possession was split exactly 50-50, but the shot count was not: Fortaleza had 12 attempts to Pasto's five, and six on target to none. Expected goals told a similar story, 0.66 for the visitors against 0.28 for the hosts, though neither figure points to a flood of clear chances.
Pasto's one statistical edge was in corners, where they won three to Fortaleza's one.
Behind Banguera, defender Hervin Goyes earned a match rating of 7.7 from 63 touches. For Fortaleza, defender Santiago Cuero was their best performer with a rating of 7.4 and 51 touches.
What it means
The point leaves Pasto 11th on 43 points from 31 matches, with a goal difference of minus five. It extends a thin run: two wins in their last 10, with seven goals scored and 15 conceded in that spell.
Fortaleza stay 15th on 32 points, 11 behind Pasto. This was their 14th draw of the season, and their recent sequence reads one win, five draws and four defeats from 10.
The result ends Pasto's three-match winning streak against Fortaleza across the last six meetings, in which Pasto have won four, Fortaleza one, and two have now been drawn including this one.