So much has been made about Manchester City's - and in particular Erling Haaland's - superb start to the season that you'd think they were top of the Premier League table.
In reality they are not - Arsenal, having won nine of their opening 11 games, sit two points clear of City in first place. The likes of Tottenham, Newcastle and Chelsea are all hot on City's heels, but a quirk of the fixture list could allow City to reach the summit before the season pauses for the World Cup next month.
Pep Guardiola's players have three Premier League fixtures to fulfill before they jet off to compete for the most important trophy in football (or in Haaland's case, Marbella).
City will travel to Leicester on Saturday for an early kick-off, before they round off their pre-World Cup league schedule with home meetings with Fulham and Brentford on the 5th and 12th of November respectively. All three should be winnable for City, although Leicester and Fulham are both enjoying good periods of form.
On paper at least, the schedules of City's main title rivals appear to be a little tougher. Arsenal will take on a resurgent Nottingham Forest this weekend before travelling across London for a tough derby match against Chelsea. A week later they'll face Wolves at Molineux.
Spurs are at Bournemouth this weekend, before they come up against Liverpool and Leeds at home. Chelsea have arguably the toughest schedule of all, having to make trips to Brighton and Newcastle either side of their derby with Arsenal, while Newcastle have got Aston Villa at home, Southampton away and Chelsea at home.
Liverpool - 10 points behind City but never a team that should be written off - must take on Leeds, Spurs and Southampton before the break.
The upshot is that City's direct rivals are all playing each other, meaning at least some of them are guaranteed to drop points. Should City win all three of their matches then they will be in a healthier position than they are now.
Another advantage City hold over Spurs, Chelsea and Liverpool is that they have a Champions League match next week which is essentially a dead-rubber. With City having already secured top spot in Group G and Sevilla already assured of a third place finish, Guardiola can afford to rest as many players as he likes ahead of next weekend's match against Fulham.
Chelsea have not mathematically sewn up top spot in their group, Liverpool will be trying to do so and Spurs need to win to guarantee their place in the last-16.