Ball rolling outside the box and Grealish did something he's not known to do, he picked a side.
It was the right corner that he aimed for and the Aston Villa youngster, whose international future remains as unclear as the reason why he persists with his haircut, beat Kasper Schmeichel at his far post.
The 20-year-old's first Villa goal instantly had Twitter's Irish contingent divided into two camps, the optimistic and the pessimistic.
Optimists.
https://twitter.com/kkfla737/status/643086677532127232
https://twitter.com/SmaIIing12/status/643086756758294528
https://twitter.com/LucaLockheart/status/643086768380747776
https://twitter.com/CallyT69/status/643086668233330688
https://twitter.com/nigepchikerema/status/643086881773756417
https://twitter.com/CoreyMcC95/status/643086938547875840
https://twitter.com/Gaz_LAD_/status/643087628506636288
https://twitter.com/JohnSmyth3D/status/643087777412857857
Pessimists.
https://twitter.com/leedsfc9/status/643086612428103681
https://twitter.com/Green_Scouser/status/643086829495943169
https://twitter.com/Killian_K95/status/643086977882005504
https://twitter.com/SuibhneGeilt1/status/643087099890151424
https://twitter.com/MartOConghaile/status/643087310393864192
https://twitter.com/bazfitz1982/status/643089280689156096
https://twitter.com/JamesBebb_/status/643088173527076864
https://twitter.com/Tom_Banks11/status/643088011111079937
https://twitter.com/craggy8/status/643089849906540544
