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I don't know much about Lithuania - England's Hart

England goalkeeper Joe Hart has accepted that he doesn't know a lot about England's next opponent Lithuania.

The Three Lions meet the Lithuanians in Euro2016 qualifying at Wembley this weekend but Manchester City number one Hart admits the Eastern Europeans are not all that familiar to him and his teammates.

Hart said: "There's no point me lying and saying I know everything about Lithuania.

"But we will know everything that is physically possible to know about them by the end of the week because that's the game we have on Friday and that's who the whole trip is based around at the moment.

"We will know what we need to know. We'll know their strengths and weaknesses and for me, personally, I'll know all about their attack and how they like to play so we can work around it.

"The expectancy is there, but I'm the first person to realise that it's not as simple as that. Things can happen in games and we need to prepare for anything.

"If you don't plan then a goal can go in against you sometimes or something like that, so we need to prepare for everything.

"It will be a case of watching videos and patterns of play, things like that. When they've been successful and unsuccessful. Trying to get as much footage as possible from their club sides, that's kind of the route we usually go down."

England, who have 12 points from 4 games, sit at the top of their group while Lithuania have 6 points from their 4 fixtures.

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