Real Madrid should try to get out of the zone to return back to their champions track. They are the defending champions and the most trophy holders so they already have a champion's mentality. I'm not surprised if they are bad at the beginning, and won it at the end, because they've done before it. What they should do now is must be able to move to the next round, so if they can do it, they will step up perfectly until the finals.
And I think this is also Anceloti's strategy, he is a genius man who has tactics that can't understood by another coach. he's even willing to lose so that the strategy can not read by another coach to the next the crucial match.
I agree with you, for me Ancelotti is one of the best coaches that Madrid has ever had, sometimes I don't quite understand what he wants to do because he comes out with the wrong strategy or formation and he hasn't solved Viní's position with Mbappe either, that's something that needs to be solved soon, I would like them to give more minutes to Arda Guller who is playing very well, however he may have stumbled in some games, like he did with Barcelona, which really was not Madrid's day, even the league gives revenge and next time it must be prepared.