1.4 TSI cold start hesitation

It's been a long time since I was around and an active member of this great forum as I no longer own a Skoda, but trying to help out a friend who, under my own advice, bought a 2014 Octavia 1.4 TSI manual in 2015 and has indeed been very happy with it since.

So lately, he tells me, the car is really hesitant on a cold start up. It starts, but it's feeling down on power when setting off, and if he requests a little bit more power he feels it even more, sort of a hiccup behaviour. Strangely enough,  driving like this a few hundred meters down the road the car starts to behave normal again.

Car has 78.000km at the moment, no upcoming big maintenance,  spark plugs changed 1yr ago, just oil and filters due soon.

I was thinking coils maybe? They must be still the original ones at that mileage? But would they cause this if going bad? Otherwise something in the fueling system? Is it something other owners have come across and if so what was the remedy?

Cheers