🗓️ Arne Slot's Liverpool reign is about to be turbocharged as Reds enter rollercoaster fixture sequence

It's three wins from three so far for Liverpool's new head coach, but his season is truly about to take off during a hectic period over the next three weeks

Anyone who’s been on a rollercoaster will know the sensation. You start off slowly, inching gradually towards a visible arc, fully aware that a sharp drop is on its way. Then the tipping point comes and the tepid procession of the carriage suddenly becomes a supersonic hurtle towards terra firma, moving at a speed which induces excitable screaming and illicits comparisons with how Formula 1 drivers must feel during the adrenaline rush of a Grand Prix.

That metaphor can apply to what Arne Slot is about to face into at Liverpool. He marked 100 days as the Reds’ head coach earlier this week but has only had three competitive games in charge so far. Starting from Saturday, he’ll have seven more in the space of 22 days. We hope the Dutchman is strapped in, because the gentle schedule he’s had up to now is about to become an unrelenting multi-competition hurricane.

Between now and the next international break in a month’s time, LFC face four more Premier League games, mark their return to the Champions League after missing out last season, and begin the defence of their Carabao Cup crown. Kopites have only had one competitive game at Anfield so far this season; they’ll have four more in the next three weeks.

The good news for Slot is that he goes into his first hectic fixture period as Liverpool boss in the strongest possible position, boasting a 100% record thus far; and he’s well accustomed to balancing domestic and continental commitments from his time at Feyenoord, who he brought to a European final and quarter-final in successive years.

It’s only now that it feels as if the Dutchman’s reign is truly beginning, so ahead of this busy run for the Reds, let’s look back at their results from corresponding fixtures last term (or in the most recent applicable season), as well as this period of the 2023/24 campaign.