The international break means there will be no more Premier League football for a couple of weeks.
When it does return later this month, however, it does so with a bang – especially for Chelsea and Liverpool fans.
On October 20, the two sides face each other at Anfield in what promises to be a thrilling affair, with both teams having enjoyed fine starts to the season under their new managers Enzo Maresca and Arne Slot.
Ahead of the fixture, Everything Chelsea takes a look back at five classic fixtures, starting with one particularly memorable Liverpool slip-up in 2014.
Liverpool 0-2 Chelsea (April 27, 2014)
When Liverpool hosted Chelsea at Anfield in April 2014, the Reds were top of the Premier League, clear by five points with just three games to play and firmly on course to win their first ever title.
With the scores level just before the break, however, Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard infamously slipped as he went to control the ball on the halfway line, allowing Chelsea's Demba Ba to run in clear on goal and score.
Liverpool went on to lose 2-0.
In the next game, Brendan Rodgers' side then drew 3-3 with Crystal Palace to all but hand the title to Manchester City.
Liverpool 5-3 Chelsea (July 22, 2020)
Not a game Chelsea fans will remember too fondly, but certainly one Liverpool fans do.
Having just been crowned Premier League champions for the first-ever time, Liverpool soared into a 3-0 on the day thanks to goals from Naby Keita, Trent Alexander-Arnold, and Georginio Wijnaldum, before Olivier Giroud pulled one back to make it 3-1.
Roberto Firmino then put Liverpool 4-1 up as the Reds looked like running away with it, but goals from Tammy Abraham and Christian Pulisic set up a tense finale.
Any chance of an epic comeback was shut down in the 84th minute, however, when Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain scored Liverpool's fifth and final goal, capping off a memorable day, and season, for Jurgen Klopp's men.
Chelsea 4-4 Liverpool (April 14, 2009)
Trailing 3-1 from the first-leg of this Champions League quarter-final tie, Liverpool flew out of the blocks at Stamford Bridge, scoring two in the first half to level on aggregate.
Chelsea then scored three quick goals after the break to reassert their dominance in the tie, before Liverpool scored two in two minutes in the final etchings through Lucas Levia and Dirk Kuyt, putting everyone watching on their edge of their seats.
With Liverpool pressing for an equalizer that would have seen them go through on away goals, however, Frank Lampard then struck Chelsea's fourth to end the tie once and for all and send the Blues into the semi-finals.
And breathe.
Liverpool 1-0 Chelsea (May 3, 2005)
Another Champions League all-timer, but this time one that fell in the favour of Liverpool, albeit not without controversy.
Just three minutes into the second-leg of the two sides' semi-final tie with the aggregate score at 0-0, Liverpool's Luis Garcia poked the ball past Chelsea keeper Petr Cech, only for defender William Gallas to clear it off the line – or so he thought.
Instead, referee Lubos Michel believed the ball had actually crossed the line and awarded Liverpool the goal. It was enough to settle the tie and send the Reds into the final.
Chelsea manager at the time Jose Mourinho was still upset almost two decades later.
"Liverpool's stadium scored a goal because the ball hadn't gone in, but they made so much noise that they scored," Mourinho said in 2023, ahead of visiting Anfield with AS Roma. "The stadium helps, statistically the home team has more positive results than the visitors, but you have to play."
Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool (May 11, 2003)
Chelsea's 2-1 win over Liverpool on May 11, 2003 secured a fourth placed Premier League finish for the Blues and saw them return to the Champions League for the first time in four seasons.
The win meant much more than that, however.
At the time, Russian oil baron Roman Abramovich had decided he wanted to buy a Premier League club, but he wasn't sure which one. It's thought that Chelsea beating Liverpool and securing Champions League football helped convince him that Stamford Bridge was the place for him.
The rest is, as they say, history.
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