Unai Simón Breaks Casillas' World Cup Record

Spanish national team goalkeeper Unai Simón kept a clean sheet in the 2-0 victory over France in their World Cup semi-final clash. In doing so, the shot-stopper surpassed Iker Casillas' record for the most clean sheets for Spain at World Cup finals.

This marked Simón's eighth clean sheet at World Cups and his sixth in the current tournament. The former Real Madrid goalkeeper had seven clean sheets to his name in the most prestigious national team competition.

Casillas participated in four World Cups, while the current tournament is only Simón's second in his career.

Simón has a total of 65 appearances for the Spanish national team. In those matches, he has conceded 49 goals and kept 30 clean sheets.