{"id":6507,"date":"2026-07-10T20:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=6507"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:54:54","slug":"belgium-ends-spains-record-shutout-streak-with-quarterfinals-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=6507","title":{"rendered":"Belgium Ends Spain&#039;s Record Shutout Streak With Quarterfinals Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Unai Simon\u2019s impenetrable wall finally crumbled at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>The Spain goalkeeper had kept a clean sheet for a record 650 minutes \u2014 the tournament&#8217;s longest scoreless streak \u2014 before Belgium ended it in the quarterfinals on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Charles De Ketelaere got in front of Pau Cubarsi to head in Timothy Castagne&#8217;s cross in the 41st minute, making the score 1-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Belgium became the first team to score against La Roja at this year&#8217;s World Cup, snapping their tournament record of six consecutive clean sheets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Spain\u2019s streak began with a 0-0 draw in the round of 16 at the last tournament in 2022, when Morocco advanced after a penalty shootout. There was also a surprising scoreless draw against Cape Verde to open group play this year, followed by four consecutive shutout victories to advance to the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Sim\u00f3n broke the previous record of 517 consecutive scoreless minutes during a 3-0 win over Austria to open the knockout round. Italy goalkeeper Walter Zenga set the previous mark in 1990 with five consecutive clean sheets at his home World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Sim\u00f3n\u2019s shutout streak started in 2022 in Qatar when he entered a 2-1 loss to Japan in group play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>The 29-year-old goalkeeper faced only two shots in the first half Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY Unai Simon\u2019s impenetrable wall finally crumbled at the World Cup. The Spain goalkeeper had kept a clean sheet for a record 650 minutes \u2014 the tournament&#8217;s longest scoreless streak \u2014 before Belgium ended it in the quarterfinals on Friday. Charles De Ketelaere got in front of Pau Cubarsi to head in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}