Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is convinced Darwin Nunez is beginning to reach his best form.
Nunez scored his sixth goal for the club in Wednesday night's 3-0 Champions League win away to Ajax, having also scored the winner against West Ham in his last Premier League outing.
"The problem is not that the boys need extra long to settle or whatever but they are different situations for the players," Klopp said ahead of Liverpool's Saturday night game with Leeds.
"Darwin came here after a short break in the summer, arriving in Asia not speaking a word [of English], and being young, and Liverpool is a big club and it's a big step for him and he was expensive. All these kind of things.
"Then all of a sudden, he played his first game and everyone is looking at you. It's like the whole place is dark and there is only one light and it is a spot on you. You have to deal with that, the unexpected, immediately.
"You try and get fit with new things in training, with different demands, all this kind of things.
"Then you start well against City [in the Community Shield], you come on and score an important goal, then you score in the next game at Fulham.
"Then you have a red card, you feel embarrassment. Everyone would react like this. So from not being 100 per cent confident, getting a knock like this is not cool. You can't blame anybody else for it, so you have to start anew.
"For all these things, his numbers are incredible. I am pretty sure his xGs are high. He had a few chances that he missed but he has scored as well and he is involved in a lot of finishing moments, a lot of things.
"The steps he is making are really big and that means, automatically, that he settled in more and more. He had a great month."