Not for the first time, Liverpool find themselves heading for an away Champions League clash against Real Madrid while simultaneously juggling a challenge to ensure qualification for the competition.
But how Jurgen Klopp copes with the situation next month will be significantly different to the way predecessor Brendan Rodgers approached matters in November 2014.
True, direct comparisons are rather unfair. However, there is more than a hint of similarity between the two scenarios.
More than six years ago, Rodgers was grappling with another injury crisis - this time in attack - that was hampering hopes of keeping pace with the top four.
The trip to the Bernabeu came a fortnight after Liverpool had been humbled 3-0 at Anfield - their heaviest home European defeat - in their initial group stage clash.
And with a home game against Premier League high-fliers Chelsea to come a few days later, Rodgers made the drastic choice to bench a number of key players including skipper Steven Gerrard, vice-captain Jordan Henderson and teenage winger Raheem Sterling.
While there was some honour in a narrow 1-0 defeat, the understrength team selection was akin to surrender against the competition's holders, a glaring stain on Liverpool's glittering European reputation.
The gamble backfired horribly on Rodgers, with his team failing to progress from the group and, in any case, losing 2-1 to Chelsea three days later. Liverpool ended up finishing sixth.
Indeed, a straight line can be drawn from that evening to Klopp replacing Rodgers as boss less than 12 months later, along with the decisions of both Gerrard and Sterling to seek pastures new the following summer.
Klopp now faces a recognisable situation with Liverpool having been handed another crack against Real Madrid in the Champions League quarter-finals next month.
The first leg on the road comes in between games at Arsenal and at home to Aston Villa, key fixtures with the Reds still harbouring hopes of a top-four Premier League finish.
The Liverpool boss will surely rotate his resources, having at his disposal a far stronger squad than Rodgers ever did.
But it's unlikely Klopp will make quite the same amount of wholesale changes in any of those fixtures.
If anything, it'll be the Real match in which the Reds are strongest. And for good reason.
While all three games represent a route back into the Champions League, the draw for the semi-finals - in which the winners of Liverpool's tie take on either Porto or Chelsea - indicate lifting the trophy for a seventh time may in fact be easier than bridging the gap to the top four.
Neither, though, is going to be anything other than hugely difficult, Liverpool further hampered in Europe by again being without the backing of their supporters, Anfield denied what would have surely been another famous evening.
Klopp knows from experience the transformative impact a defeat to Real Madrid can have on the Reds.
But while Rodgers' setback helped push his tenure along the way towards terminal decline, the Champions League final defeat in 2018 in Kiev provided Klopp's side with the hunger and experience to go one better the following year, later becoming world and English champions.
If not quite the making of them, it demonstrated the last step the Reds needed to take to claim silverware.
This time, Klopp will hope Liverpool's latest encounter with Real Madrid can by profitable both in the short and long-term.
