Real Madrid's performance has not been as good as last season so far and expecting them to win the Champions League title this season is a bit doubtful. Fans will still hope that Real Madrid is a team capable of defending its title this season, but it would be completely unreasonable to always let this team win the Champions League title instead of another team.
Several teams that have performed well this season have a good chance of winning the title and one of them is Liverpool. Manchester City also doesn't escape my attention, although so far Manchester City has been unstable, but Real Madrid still shouldn't be ignored even though its performance has been inconsistent. Real Madrid has won 15 Champions League titles in history, they are the best team in this competition.
I do not doubt Real Madrid's performance because in the Champions League they will easily turn their performance around to be better. Yes, lately there has been a lot of speculation that Real Madrid will be doubted to become champions this season because they think Real Madrid's performance has declined this season. But in my opinion they are too early to judge Real Madrid's performance because the Champions League still has many stages to go through so judging early is very unreasonable.
Even in terms of strength, Real Madrid has quite good strength with the quality players they have. But so far I have doubted Mbappe's performance because he has had relatively difficulty showing his best performance with Real Madrid. But as time goes by I admit that Real Madrid will be much stronger compared to the current situation.