SWINDON Town must match and ideally surpass Leyton Orient’s intensity levels if they stand a chance of emerging with all three points on Tuesday night, according to head coach Scott Lindsey.

Town host former manager Richie Wellens and his Leyton Orient side which has begun in red-hot form so far this term.

Orient have won all three League Two games to nil and currently sit top of the table as the only side with a 100 per cent winning record.

Swindon enter the tricky fixture off the back of scoring the club’s first goal this campaign in a 1-1 draw with Carlisle United, and the Robins will hope to go one better by notching a maiden victory under the lights.

Previewing Town v Orient, Lindsey set out his team’s plan of attack. He said: “We have to match every team we play against, in terms of the intensity, in terms of how we press, and in terms of how we cope with them pressing us.

“We want to play our possession-based football still – nothing will change there – but of course we want to match their tempo and intensity.

“In fact, we want to be more intense than them, that’s how we want to play.

“They’re a very good side, they play very expansive football with big distances between players. The full-backs go really high and wide, and the two wide lads play as inverted wingers.

“They cause teams a lot of problems by trying to find overloads all over the pitch. They’re a good side, but so are we.”

After a disappointing start away at Harrogate Town, Swindon have gradually begun to find their feet under Lindsey on their way to drawing their two most recent games.

The Town boss is confident that while it will not always be smooth sailing for his team, they will continue to improve, and fans will see positive results in the near future.

He said: “I think there has been a real improvement from game one, definitely.

“There’s going to be ups and downs, it’s not going to be smooth and you’re probably not going to see a gradual incline all the way.

“There will be times when we dip, there will be times when we win and perform unexpectedly – that’s how football is.

“You can’t guarantee a great performance, and you can’t guarantee that you’ll always get the right result.

“But what we will be doing is getting organised and playing a team that we feel is going to win the game.”