Spain continued their winning run at the 2026 World Cup, easing past Austria into the round of 16 with a clean 3-0 victory while maintaining their record of conceding no goals.
For the fourth consecutive time, Spanish goalkeeper Unai Simón kept a clean sheet at the current World Cup, setting an unprecedented record for the most minutes without conceding a goal in World Cup history.
Guinness World Records announced that Simón had set a new record as the holder of the longest clean-sheet run in World Cup history, having reached 519 minutes, surpassing the previous record held by Italian goalkeeper Walter Zenga, which stood at 518 minutes at the 1990 World Cup.
Simón's run began in the final 39 minutes of the match against Japan, before he continued to keep his net clean throughout the match against Morocco — which extended to extra time at the 2022 Qatar World Cup — then kept clean sheets in the 2026 World Cup group stage matches against Cape Verde, Saudi Arabia, and Uruguay, before completing the run against Austria in the round of 32, reaching 519 minutes without conceding a single goal.
Simón also broke the Spanish record for the longest clean-sheet run, which had previously been held by goalkeeper Iker Casillas at 476 minutes.