Before Brazil 2014 and since the group stage of Euro 2008, Spain had kept 13 clean sheets in 16 tournament matches.
There were solid displays by Ross Barkley and Luke Shaw, on their first competitive starts, against the group winners with Hodgson also praising a new-look back line for keeping the team's only clean sheet of the tournament.
Lucien Laurent of France scored the first goal in World Cup history, while American goalkeeper Jimmy Douglas posted the first official "clean sheet" in the tournament.
Be sure that where you're holding the tournament is clean.
James, Coach Mike Krzyzewski said afterward, did the dirty work in this tournament — and the clean work, too.
Coached by a man fittingly nicknamed "the Stopper", German Uli Stielike, South Korea have not conceded a single goal in the tournament, keeping five clean sheets.
Everyone wanted to know how a man who had never before sat down at a tournament table could clean out so many skilled professionals.
Austria kept their first clean sheet at a major tournament in 14 matches and their first since 1982 (v Algeria) against Portugal.
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With that monologue, pointless and boring to so many, Spain achieved in the past three tournaments 10 consecutive clean sheets in the knockout matches.
