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LONDON (Reuters) – England team mates Joe Hart and Theo Walcott agreed to differ on Wednesday about the significance of possibly going through their Euro 2016 qualifying group with a 100 percent record.

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Victories at home to Estonia on Friday and away to Lithuania next Monday would give Roy Hodgson’s side 10 wins out of 10 — something no other country can emulate.

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Sitting nine points ahead of Switzerland, they are already guaranteed to win the group.

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“Hopefully we can go 10 undefeated,” Arsenal’s Walcott told a news conference. “It would be a great achievement to win 10 out of 10.”

Manchester City goalkeeper Hart was more dismissive, however.

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“It’s two games away from happening and I don’t see it as being that great an achievement unless we go on and do well at the finals,” he said.

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England have often sailed through their qualifying group for major tournaments but then failed when they got there.

“We were disappointed a couple of summers ago,” Hart said of the last World Cup in Brazil when England finished bottom of their group after failing to win a game.

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“But we’ve reacted in the right way,” he added of the new campaign.

(Reporting by Steve Tongue; editing by Ken Ferris)

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