Trap content after Aviva goal-fest

HOW very unItalian. How unlike Trap. Five goals and a hatful of chances at either end to boot is not the sort of evening one gears up for when sitting down to a game involving a certain Giovanni Trapattoni.

It was almost like, with the senior players away, the boss had sent the kids out to run free.

You wondered what sort of Trap would emerge into the main press briefing room. Would he come adorned with a hangdog expression, in keeping with the dour spirit of catenaccio or would he embrace the carnival for what it was?