Belgium ends Spain goalkeeper Unai Simón’s record World Cup shutout run during a quarterfinal match on Friday. Multiple reports say Simón had kept a clean sheet for 650 minutes, the tournament’s longest scoreless streak. Belgium breaks that record in the 41st minute when Charles De Ketelaere heads in from the front of Pau Cubarsi, converting a cross from Timothy Castagne to level the score at 1-1. According to the accounts, Belgium’s goal is the first Spain concedes in the tournament. Spain then still wins the match 2-1 to reach the semifinals. The victory sends Spain to play France in the semifinals next Tuesday. Belgium’s strike is also described as their first goal against Spain at this World Cup, snapping Belgium’s own sequence of not conceding in certain contexts noted by one outlet, while the headline focus across sources remains on the end of Simón’s long shutout streak.
Belgium ends Spain goalkeeper Unai Simón’s World Cup shutout streak in quarterfinal
Belgium ends Spain goalkeeper Unai Simón’s record World Cup shutout run during a quarterfinal match on Friday. Multiple reports say Simón had kept a clean sheet for 650 minutes, the tournament’s longe...
- Unai Simón is credited with a World Cup record 650-minute shutout streak before Belgium scored.
- Belgium’s Charles De Ketelaere scores the goal that ends Spain’s tournament-long clean sheet.
- The goal comes in the 41st minute, with De Ketelaere heading in a cross from Timothy Castagne.
- Spain defeats Belgium 2-1 in the quarterfinal.
- Spain advances to the semifinals to face France next Tuesday.
INGLEWOOD, California — Unai Simón’s impenetrable wall finally crumbled at the World Cup. The Spain goalkeeper had kept a clean sheet for a record 650 minutes — the tournament’s longest scoreless streak — before Belgium ended it in the quarterfinals on Friday. Charles De Ketelaere got in front of Pau Cubarsi to head in Timothy Castagne’s cross in the 41st minute, making the score 1-1. Spain won 2-1 to advance to the semifinals next Tuesday against France. Belgium became the first team to score against La Roja at this year’s World Cup, snapping their tournament record of six consecutive clean […]...Keep on reading: World Cup: Belgium finally stops Spain goalkeeper's shutout streak
1 month agoBelgium forward Charles De Ketelaere scored the first goal allowed by Spain in the entire World Cup in the 41st minute Friday, ending Unai Simon's historic shutout streak.
1 month agoBelgium brought an end to Spain's record-breaking defensive run at the FIFA World Cup after Charles De Ketelaere scored to snap the longest clean-sheet streak in the tournament's history.
1 month agoBelgium brought an end to Spain's record-breaking defensive run at the FIFA World Cup after Charles De Ketelaere scored to snap the longest clean-sheet streak in the tournament's history.
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