Last season real madrid have CF, namely karim benzema was beaten 4-0 and 1-1 in the champion league. now benzema has left and his cf replacement is far inferior to benzema, only a joselu as a substitute for benzema. so if the performance is normal and there are no surprises, surely manchester city can beat and remove real madrid from the champion league again.
The Real Madrid coach is not a fool when it comes to placing players and also when it comes to choosing players to replace players who have left the Real Madrid team. Currently, everyone still admits that Manchester City is a team that is quite strong in the Champions League and also in the Premier League itself, but everyone probably still hasn't forgotten that Real Madrid is a very successful team in the Champions League so that at the moment it is still quite dangerous for other teams in terms of title contention.
Yes, although it is true that the coach will not hesitate to put his players to launch his strategy, but we need to realize that the quality of attacking players is not as strong as before, such as Karim Benzema, but it can also be said that Anceloti will not make the same strategy as Benzema, the probability that may be used must prioritize the ability of existing attacking players and not focus as before, Joselu is not as good as Benzema but there may be other options that can be used to destroy Manchester City's defense, also that Manchester City I noticed is not as crazy as last season, the game has begun to be read by other teams, some games also Manchester City seemed exhausted in running the match, so there is still a possibility that Real Madrid can beat Manchester City.
If the outcome of a match was determined only by what you said, then it would be easy for bettors to place bets that hauled in profits. Unfortunately in football, everything doesn't work out the way you think. Even though Real Madrid no longer plays with Benzema, that doesn't mean they will have a much worse performance because a team's performance is not determined only by the role of key players, rather it refers to the strategy and how the players carry out that strategy.