Yeah by looking at squad the both of teams, it can be seen that the competition for title is only for Real Madrid and Barcelona, the others are just pawns that they will beat to collect points. But it's also usually unpredictable, it's possible for both of them to make more mistakes than the other team, although that's rare for Real Madrid as this club has made incredible comebacks so often.
Seeing Madrid's performance last season maybe something like that won't hinder them, from 38 matches they only lost 4 and drew 8 and indeed for Madrid's defeats from the last 3 seasons they have never been more than 4 times so indeed mistakes like that will be very difficult. happened to them.
What I'm worried about is that last season they depended so much on Benzema for goal productivity that when this season they do the same this is definitely not a good thing.