The new mid-half drinks break should be advantageous to Premier League managers. It's another opportunity to impart instructions, give praise or issue a timely wake-up call to a player not in the game.
But these benefits are negated when you're already two goals down by the time your players trudge in for their liquid refreshment from individually-labelled bottles.
Such was the situation Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers found himself in at Goodison Park on Wednesday night.
Early goals from Everton's Richarlison and Gylfi Sigurdsson - the second the result of a contentious VAR penalty decision - resulted in Rodgers blasting his players with a snarling expression and a jabbing finger.