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The reason why Real Madrid lose against Juventus is Real Madrid use a strategy where it depend on Bellingham as an attacking midfielder. They're more comfortable when the midfielder backing up other midfielder and working together.

But it's clear there are so many chances in Real Madrid, but their strikers weren't able to maximize it.

This is a new debut for Jude Bellingham in Madrid, because it is still in a friendly match coach Carlo Ancelotti trying to find the right position for him, Ancelotti has made several game options throughout pre-season to find the maximum performance from all players. However, this defeat will see Ancelotti return to make more correcting in his first team before LaLiga starts

Ancelotti has tended to play Jude Bellingham as an attacking midfielder in his last 4 pre-season games. Bellingham plays well in that position where he can help Real Madrid build up attacks. Real Madrid won 2 of their 4 pre-season matches against Milan and Manchester United, but Real Madrid lost their last 2 matches against Barcelona and Juventus.

Of course Ancelotti really has to evaluate his team's performance after 4 pre-season games, obviously he still has time to do so before the league starts on the 13th of August. On the other hand Real Madrid really need a great striker to help them win games, that is one of the most important things that Ancelotti has to focus on for his team.

Whenever I see the recent matches from Real Madrid I can see and feel the empty place of Benzema in this team because after he left the team they couldn't hire a good striker to fill his place and Real Madrid could have had much better performance in the recent games we saw if they had a striker like Mbappe in their team.
That's why Ancelotti had to put some players to helping the forwards ad attacking like setting Jude Bellingham is a good example of it.

Positioning of players and substitutes are all being done but Karim Benzema's place is nowhere to be filled. The absence of Karim Benzema in the first two matches was clearly understood. The main reason why Real Madrid have not replaced Karim Benzema after leaving Real Madrid is that they may be waiting for Mbappe. But if they have a bad season waiting for Mbap, I think there is no point in waiting for Mbappe. Either way, Mbappe should have been brought to Real Madrid this season. Had Mbappe been available since the start of this season, the lack of Karim Benzema would have been well covered. Maybe we'll miss Karim Benzema for an entire season unless Mbappe joins Real Madrid this season.