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Swindon Town fans rave about performance of Arsenal loanee Matt Smith

Dom Toner

Wed 21 October 2020 12:45, UK Updated Fri 1 November 2024 8:33, UK

Arsenal youngster Matt Smith completed another 90 minutes on Tuesday night for Swindon Town – and some fans of the English Football League club hailed him for his performance.

The 20-year-old is a highly-rated talent that left the Emirates Stadium in the summer transfer window to join League One club Swindon on a season-long loan, as he searches for some first-team experience.

He’s played every single minute of their opening seven league games, including on Tuesday in the 2-1 away defeat against Northampton Town.

Smith has made a strong start to life in the third-tier by quickly becoming an ever-present for Swindon, but his new club do sit 19th in the table with just two wins from their opening seven league games.

He is a versatile central midfielder that has been loaned out by Premier League giants Arsenal for the first time in his career after impressing at youth level and aged 20 he needs a breakout year to try break into Mikel Arteta’s squad in the future at the Emirates Stadium.

The Gunners loanee missed a goalscoring opportunity during the first-half against Northampton, but was one of his side’s best attacking threats and he’s also got the ability to slot into a more defensive role in front of the back four if needed.

Here are some Swindon fans discussing Smith’s latest display:

Grant an absolute passenger tonight. Caddis way off it.
Matt Smith playing well

Look very lost out there so far

— 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 • ASH • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@Ash83STFC)

Feel sorry for how good Matt Smith is, amongst players who are well below his level.

— Tom Carter (@TCarter66208)

These clowns don’t deserve to be on the same team sheet as Matt smith

— 🏆 (@roryhalliday_)

I’m 3.5 games into being able to watch. Stuff I’ve learnt

– we lack pace at the back
– off the ball we are appalling
– Matt Smith is an expectional player
– Kovar is woefully out of his depth (sorry lad)
– don’t have a budget so we will have to live with these things 🤷‍♂️

— Neil Hussey (@hussla4)

Matt Smith showing up every town player out there.

— 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 • ASH • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@Ash83STFC)

You certainly can’t fault young Matt Smith tonight – been our best player by miles…

— Harvey (@Ramsbury_Man)

Matt Smith is absolutely class considering he had never played at senior level before joining us

— James (@j_walsh86)