Mick McCarthy had talked before this one about how his ambition was to win with style, and his team certainly delivered on both counts to the delight of the Aviva last night.

Unlike the ultra-defensive Gibraltar, Mick McCarthy can expect Georgia to adopt a more orthodox 4-1-4-1 formation that held Switzerland scoreless for close to an hour last Saturday.

A beautiful autumnal evening on Lansdowne Road. A pitch that would put your living room carpet to shame and an opponent ranked over a hundred places below them on Fifa’s world rankings.