Depending on your point of view, the recent successive Premier League postponements have either given Liverpool much-needed extra time on the training ground or denied an opportunity to show a continued response to their indifferent start to the season.
For Darwin Nunez, though, there is no doubt the blank weekends have been a source of intense frustration.
And it's in keeping with the embryonic Anfield career of the player Jurgen Klopp rubber-stamped as potentially becoming the most expensive player in the club's history when a £86million deal was struck with Benfica back in June.