It's the sort of sequence that has already evoked memories of last season's nail-biting Liverpool run-in. Between October 1 and November 12, the Reds will play 13 times and will know a lot more about what is and isn't possible for the remainder of the season when the time comes to clear the domestic calendars until after Christmas.
October rolls in with a visit to Anfield from Roberto De Zerbi's Brighton and is the first of a baker's dozen that have been squeezed in to accommodate the unique prospect of the winter World Cup in Qatar.
Eight Premier League games are welded around the four fixtures that will bring up the completion of the Champions League group stages, while Liverpool's defence of the EFL Cup also gets underway on November 8 when Derby County come to Merseyside. There's barely time to draw breath.
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It's going to be a very busy few weeks for Klopp and his staff and in the same way that saw the team play 16 times between early April and late May, this period will be just as important for shaping the current campaign as a whole. At least such an impending run is nothing new to them in that sense.
Aside from the sheer volume of the fixtures that await them this month, Liverpool also have some sizable ones in there with title rivals Manchester City and Premier League leaders Arsenal before tricky-looking affairs at Nottingham Forest and at home to Leeds United. There are also the first ever competitive meetings with Rangers in the Champions League, too.
"We need to get going," was the message from one senior source this week when the attention turned to a hectic nine-game October, something which Klopp himself addressed on Friday.
"For us now, the next six weeks are obviously very important," said the Liverpool manager. "We didn't have the start we wanted to have for some explainable reasons and for some non-explainable reasons that we shouldn't even try to, it was just not good enough at certain moments. But that is now is our basis and the job is to collect points. Bam! Start doing it now."
Liverpool have at least been able to fully take stock and recharge in recent weeks ahead of this potentially sapping run. Their last game was back on September 13 at home to Ajax and they haven't played in the Premier League since the goalless draw with Everton 10 days earlier. It will be 28 days between top-flight games for Klopp's men by the time the whistle blows on Saturday afternoon.
That gap has likely allowed the analysis team the chance to sift through the problems that have blighted the campaign so far while also affording the medical department ample opportunity to step up the recovery process of their walking wounded.
That much was proven by the returns to training of Caoimhin Kelleher, Calvin Ramsay and, most notably, Ibrahima Konate this week. The French defender hasn't played a competitive game since the Champions League final over four months ago but is now back in contention at an opportune juncture.
It means an at-times crippling injury list has been whittled down to just four with Curtis Jones, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Naby Keita and Andy Robertson the only players now absent. All four are expected back in the next few weeks. It's still not ideal, but it's a situation that has improved in recent weeks, at least.
Such a draining set of fixtures will mean rotation is the buzzword. Klopp will need all hands on deck and everyone will get their chance and that will extend to Arthur Melo, who has turned out for the academy sides more than the seniors since he made the transfer deadline day loan switch from Juventus.
Arthur was said to be a month behind his new team-mates in terms of his fitness having not enjoyed a full pre-season with Juve, but the last few weeks have involved games against Leicester and Rochdale for the Under-21s, the Brazil international is also understood to have ignored days off in favour of coming in for extra sessions in an effort to get himself up to speed. His chance will come at some stage as he bids to kick-start a career that had stalled in Italy.
Klopp's decision to allow Jordan Henderson to depart for England duty means his skipper is also fit and available for a Saturday return having not featured since the win over Newcastle on August 31, while a fit-again Thiago Alcantara offers real hope if the classy Spaniard can remain in contention for selection.
As has been discussed on these pages in recent weeks, it's been a far from perfect opening month or so this term, but there's a theory that the September respite might just have been what the doctor ordered for Klopp and co.
The boss will bristle at the suggestion that the next few weeks are season defining and, in fairness, Klopp knows exactly what those sorts of periods really look like at Anfield. But there can be no escaping the feeling that the overriding ambitions for 22/23 can only really be assessed once this sequence is complete on November 12.
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