Jurgen Klopp's high-flying Liverpool side have installed themselves as the Premier League's early front-runners following an unbeaten start to the 2019-20 season, their nearest challengers Leicester City currently 7 points behind after 12 games.
This is, of course, not the first time a side coached by the charismatic German has been in such an enviable position.
Leading former club Borussia Dortmund to back-to-back Bundesliga titles in 2010-11 and 2011-12, both teams were so-called 'Autumn Champions' - topping the table at the close of the first-half of each respective league-winning campaign.
In 2010-11, an incredible run of 14 wins from 15 games before the winter break would set them on their way to ending their title drought which stretched back to 2001.
Their form would continue after Christmas as the Signal Iduna Park outfit, the youngest German champions in history, secured their seventh league title.
Following a false start, a home loss to Bayer Leverkusen, Klopp's charges would score 20 goals and conceding just four to put together a string of seven wins on the spin saw seeing off Stuttgart, Wolfsburg, Schalke, Kaiserslautern, St. Pauli, Bayern and Köln.
This was halted by a draw at home to Hoffenheim before Klopp's side once more put together an incredible streak of 7 wins putting Mainz, Hannover, Hamburg, Freiburg, Gladbach, Nürnberg and Bremen to the sword.
Klopp's BVB side's dazzling 'full-throttle football' will need very little introduction to Liverpool supporters who have witnessed the club's incredible rise from Premier League also-rans to European champions.
The Bundesliga-winning side itself, as one may expect, resembles the current Liverpool side in terms of its set-up.
In Matts Hummels and Nevan Subotic, one can instantly draw a comparison with the elegant, unperturbed style of Virgil van Dijk and the slightly more aggressive and antagonistic style of Dejan Lovren, respectively.
Its marauding full-backs, Łukasz Piszczek and Marcel Schmelzer were known to join the attack in the same way Trent Alexander Arnold and Andy Robertson are known to do; often becoming the creative focal point of the team from a position traditionally not known for playmaking.
In front of their defence, was, of course, two banks of three; one of industrious, disciplined midfielders and, the other, their attacking arsenal, there to finish off the moves that so often had their genesis in the full-back areas courtesy of Piszczek and Schmelzer.
The trajectory of Klopp's Dortmund side, arguably, upstages even what the Black-Forest native has achieved on Merseyside.
In 2004, the one-time European Cup winners were in such financial turmoil that rivals Bayern Munich had to bail them out with a €2m interest-free loan after the club were unable to pay their players.
Within seven years, and with the addition of a fresher-faced Jurgen Klopp who had impressed as manager of Mainz leading them from the second-tier to European qualification during his tenure, Dortmund had returned to the pinnacle of the German game.
Klopp would follow this up by recording the highest points total in the history of the Bundesliga during the next season.
Following three defeats in their first five league games, BVB would not lose again that season, winning 21 games out of 26; finishing the campaign some 8 points ahead of Bayern at the Bundesliga summit.
Their 47 points earned following the winter break was also a league record their 28-league match unbeaten run unprecedented.
If Klopp is to deliver Liverpool their first league title since 1990, it is clear that he will be drawing upon his previous experiences in order to ensure that his front-runners can, indeed, make it over the line come May.
It is likely that, all things considered, the experiences of the two title winning campaigns in question will be required in order to ensure that the Merseyside club beat expected-challengers Manchester City, who will still feel they are in contention despite last weekend's loss at Anfield.
Klopp's Liverpool side are already European champions, however, after surrendering a 7 point lead at the Premier League summit last term, the former Dortmund coach will be in little doubt that a run akin to what his Signal Iduna side produced in their record breaking 2011-12 campaign is what will likely be required if the Reds are to finally end their domestic hoodoo.