Another Premier League season is entering its final act, and it's about now fans of every team get their calculators and notebooks out to decipher how their team can finish as high in the table as possible.
No teams fans will be doing that more than Liverpool this season.
Arne Slot's side have a 11 point lead at the top of the Premier League and look almost certain to win their 20th top flight title, but when can they achieve this feat?
When can Liverpool officially be crowned champions?
As things stand, Liverpool need 11 points, or four wins, to bring the Premier League title to Merseyside for the 20th time. This means, should Liverpool and Arsenal, who are currently second, win all of their next three games, Liverpool would be crowned champions with a win away at Chelsea on Sunday, May 4.
As is tradition when a team clinches the title with games remaining in the season, opponents will give them a guard of honour before each match starts, which would mean Arsenal would be the first team to give them a guard of honour at Anfield on May 10.
Whilst Liverpool should be able to gain four wins from their remaining seven games, their 3-2 loss to Fulham proves that nothing is certain, and Arsenal will be riding high following their spectacular result against Real Madrid in the Champions League.
Can Liverpool win the Premier League sooner?
Of course the above scenario relies on both teams winning each game in the run in.
Should Arsenal draw any of their next two games, Liverpool would require eight points, meaning they could clinch the title at home against Tottenham on April 27, providing they win their matches.
This is now the earliest they can be crowned champions but would would mean they are crowned champions with five games to spare, short of the seven games they achieved in the 2019/20 season, the last time they won the league.
Liverpool hold the record for the earliest-ever Premier League title win… and the latest
Liverpool's 2020 title win was the earliest that a team had ever won the title, clinching it after Manchester City were beaten by Chelsea.
With seven games left of that season, it was the earliest that a team had ever lifted the Premier League: even Manchester City's Centurions only did it with five games remaining, in 2017/18.
But by a quirk of fate, Liverpool's win was also the latest the title had ever been won. Chelsea's 2-1 win over City came in an empty Stamford Bridge on June 25, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic – making it the latest date in the calendar that the league had ever been clinched… ever.
That means that the Reds have won one Premier League title to date – and hold both records for it.
Liverpool's remaining fixtures
West Ham United (H)
Leicetser City (A)
Tottenham Hotspur (H)
Chelsea (A)
Arsenal (H)
Brighton & Hove Albion (A)
Crystal Palace (H)
Arsenal's remaining fixtures
Brentford (H)
Ipswich Town (A)
Crystal Palace (H)
Bournemouth (H)
Liverpool (A)
Newcastle (H)
Southampton (A)
