It might only be the first week of October, but it is impossible to deny that the events of weekend will have a huge bearing on the Premier League title race.
Liverpool sent Anfield wild with a last gasp victory over Leicester City on Saturday courtesy of a James Milner penalty, but there wouldn't have been many Reds fans who expected their eight-point lead at the top of the table to have lasted more than 24 hours.
Manchester City were expected to beat Wolves on Sunday by pretty much everybody, but the visitors stunned the Etihad Stadium with two late Adama Traore goals to win 2-0.
That means that the Reds go into the international break eight points clear of City after eight games, and it would have been fascinating to hear what Pep Guardiola really makes of the gap.
Or do we already know?
Because since Sunday's result, a passage from Marti Perarnau's 2014 book 'Pep Confidential' which chronicled Guardiola's first season at Bayern Munich has surfaced.
It reads: ""League titles are won in the final eight games, but they are lost in the first eight games."
Ouch.
So have City lost it already?
Guardiola doesn't seem to think so judging by his post-match comments on Sunday.
"I know these guys," he said "They are still incredibly involved and they can still do it."
"We were not at our best. We had chances to score but it was a bad day and we lost the game.
"We did not make good process, we had problems in that sense. We are a team that plays a specific way but it is a bad day, that happens sometimes.
"When you win games, you think about the other one. Now we have the international break, then we can come back and go to the other games."
