ROMANIA held European champion Spain to a 0-0 draw Sunday in a Euro 2016 warmup that saw visiting goalkeeper Iker Casillas equal the record for most international caps by a European player.

    Casillas’ 166th appearance for Spain, over a 16-year span that includes winning the World Cup in South Africa in 2010, took him level with Latvia’s Vitalijs Astafjevs in the continent’s record books.

    The goalkeeper has also not conceded a goal in 710 minutes for Spain but he was forced to make a couple of fine saves to keep the clean sheet.

    The stalemate also showed that both teams have work to do in front of goal before the European championship finals in France start in June.

    It was Spain’s second friendly in four days following its fortuitous 1-1 draw away to Italy in Udinethat ended their run of seven successive wins as well as a run of six successive clean sheets.

    David de Gea played in goal for Spain in that match.

    The game featured several missed chances with Romania, which has never lost at home to Spain, enjoying decent spells of possession and always looking to counter in numbers.

    Spain coach Vicente del Bosque made 10 changes to the side that started against Italy, with center back Gerard Pique the only survivor and Barcelona midfielder Sergi Roberto making his international debut.

    “Romania had a very good game,” said del Bosque. “They didn’t let us play our brand of football. They’re a good national team.

    “I’m not completely satisfied with the two games.”

    The second-string lineup started well, creating some decent chances, and Romania keeper Ciprian Tatarusanu produced an excellent save to deny Pedro Rodriguez an opener after 10 minutes.

    The open, attacking nature of the game continued but it was obvious that Spain needed more quality in the penalty area against a team unbeaten in its 16 previous games.(SD-Agencies)