Independiente F.b.c. — Fernando de la Mora, Division Intermedia

Independiente and Fernando de la Mora shared the points in a 0-0 draw at the Intermedia tournament, Regular Season round 22 on 4 September. The match finished with neither side able to break the deadlock, leaving the table largely unchanged. We had tipped Independiente for victory at 48 per cent confidence, but the game refused to follow that script.

What the numbers say

Independiente registered 77 attacks against 84 for their visitors, yet the visitors managed three shots on target to their hosts' single effort. Fernando de la Mora were reduced to ten men after a red card, which might have explained why their attacking output failed to translate. The hosts collected four yellow cards while their opponents took two, suggesting Independiente struggled to contain the game.

By then the match had settled into a pattern where chances were thin and conversion was nonexistent. To be fair, neither side created much, and the red card for Fernando de la Mora didn't open the floodgates as one might expect. The statistics tell a story of missed opportunities rather than dominance.

And here's the thing about this result — Independiente moved up to 27 points from 21 games, while Fernando de la Mora remained on 24, still sitting in 12th place. The gap between them stayed at three points, a margin that feels like nothing when you consider how tight the middle of this table is. Both sides came into the fixture with mixed recent form, and neither could find a rhythm that would have shifted the balance.