Unai Simon has set an achievement for Spain's goalkeepers that cannot be surpassed

The Spanish national team won a convincing victory over Croatia in their first match at Euro 2024. Already in the first half Furia Roja scored three goals. There were no more goals in the second half: the match ended 3-0 in favour of Spain.

However, even without goals, one very important event happened after the break. In the 78th minute, the referee Michael Oliver awarded a penalty to the Spanish goal. Croatian forward Bruno Petkovic decided to execute the sentence and lost the duel with goalkeeper Unai Simon.

Thanks to this save, the representative of Athletic Bilbao, Unai Simon became the first goalkeeper in the history of the Spanish national team, which saved penalties without taking into account the penalty shootout. This is reported by MisterChip.

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Thus, no one else in the gates of the Spanish national team will not be able to surpass this achievement, but only to repeat it, also making a save during the penalty shootout.

Also note that Simon became the first goalkeeper to kick a penalty at Euro 2024. In addition, Unai became the author of the first clincher for goalkeepers at the current tournament.