The third-round of the FA Cup has thrown up a number of tantalising fixtures - none more so than the 235th Merseyside derby on Sunday.
Liverpool host Everton at Anfield at this stage of the competition for the second time in three seasons, and it sees Carlo Ancelotti take charge of his first inter-city clash.
Two years ago Virgil van Dijk enjoyed a dream debut, scoring a late winner to send the Reds through - could it be Takumi Minamino this time?
In the eighties the two dominant forces of English football played out two iconic Wembley finals.
But in the 21st century they have met just once in the latter stages of the competition, in the semi-finals in 2012.
Here Sportsmail look back at six famous meetings between the two in the world's oldest cup competition...
May 10, 1986: Final, Wembley
Liverpool 3-1 Everton
Liverpool and Everton dominated English football in the 1980s. This meeting between the two - then friendly neighbours - was a celebration of that.
Fans in the Wembley crowd chanted 'Merseyside', as they enjoyed their supremacy over the rest of the country.
Gary Lineker gave Everton a first-half lead, but Liverpool roared back after half-time with Ian Rush - as he so often did against the blue half of the city - leading the way.
His two goals were sandwiched either side of a Craig Johnston strike to secure the Double for Kenny Dalglish in his first season as player-manager.
May 20, 1989: Final, Wembley
Liverpool 3-2 Everton AET
Three years later the two rivals met again in London. While the first meeting was a celebration of Mersey dominion, this was tinged with emotion, coming just over a month after the Hillsborough Tragedy.
It was a poignant encounter. There was a minute's silence before kick-off and both sides wore black armbands while Gerry Marsden led the crowd in a rendition of 'You'll Never Walk Alone'.
Liverpool looked to have secured victory thanks to a fourth-minute goal from John Aldridge but Stuart McCall grabbed an equaliser with the last kick of the 90 minutes.
Ian Rush and McCall exchanged strikes in a frantic extra-time period before the Welshman finally settled the game in the 104th minute.
February 20, 1991: Fifth-round replay, Goodison Park
Everton 4-4 Liverpool AET
Perhaps the greatest Merseyside derby in history led to Kenny Dalglish walking away from the job just two days later.
Four times Liverpool took the lead in this fifth-round replay. And through kamikaze defending, four times their saw their lead pegged back by a determined Everton.
It was a chaotic 120 minutes at Goodison Park between two sides in decline after their 80s heyday.
John Barnes scored the pick of the goals to put Liverpool ahead in extra-time after Tony Cottee's late strike forced extra time.
But Cottee struck seven minutes from full time after another defensive lapse from the team in red to bring it to 4-4.
Everton went on to win the second replay just a week later thanks to a Dave Watson goal, by which time Dalglish had shocked the world of football as he resigned due to stress.
Years later the Scot revealed how he knew the time had come: 'After we took the lead for the final time I knew I had to make a change to shore things up at the back.
'I could see what needed to be done and what would happen if I didn't. I didn't act on it. That was the moment I knew I was shattered. I needed to get away from the pressure.'
February 4, 2009: Fourth-round replay, Goodison Park
Everton 1-0 Liverpool AET
It took 118 minutes for the match-winning moment to arrive, and yet most TV viewers missed it when Dan Gosling's curling effort nestled into the bottom corner.
ITV inexplicably cut away to a Tic Tac advert as Xabi Alonso lost possession in the middle of the pitch.
When the picture returned, the first thing the nation saw was a pile of blue shirts swamping 19-year-old Gosling.
The teenager had applied the finishing touch to Andy van der Meyde's deep cross to settle a replay that had looked destined for extra-time.
Liverpool were depleted by injuries, losing Steven Gerrard early on and then Fernando Torres just after the end of 90 minutes, while Lucas Leiva saw red for two bookable offences.
But it only served to make the dramatic late winner all the sweeter for Everton fans, who have beaten their fierce rivals only once in the 11 years since.
April 14, 2012 - Semi-final, Wembley
Liverpool 2-1 Everton
Twenty-three years after their last meeting at Wembley, Liverpool and Everton finally went head-to-head at the new ground in 2012.
But this time it was a semi-final, and the dominance of the eighties had long subsided. Liverpool were a shadow of their former selves, while Everton were searching for their first piece of silverware since 1996.
Dalglish was back in the dugout for Liverpool, but he was to be sacked just a month later, paying the price for a disappointing league campaign, where they finished below their neighbours. Despite a 3-0 defeat at Anfield just weeks before, David Moyes' side entered this game with confidence.
And despite taking a half-time lead through Nikica Jelavic, they froze in the second-half. Sylvain Distin's back pass left Tim Howard short, allowing Luis Suarez to equalise.
And with the game head for extra-time, Andy Carroll repaid his £35million fee with a towering header to seal a comeback victory.
January 5, 2018 - Third-round, Anfield
Liverpool 2-1 Everton
The most recent cup meeting between the two sides came just two years ago, in the third-round at Anfield.
And it looked destined to go to a replay at Goodison Park after Gylfi Sigurdsson's sweet finish had cancelled out James Milner's first half spot kick.
But up stepped Liverpool debutant Virgil van Dijk. The world had scoffed at his £75m pricetag, but despite an injury-ravaged year at Southampton he was thrown straight into the mix by Jurgen Klopp.
And he immediately repaid that faith with an 84th minute header to send the Kop wild.
