Real Madrid is a team with many injuries. Their most important players are struggling with long-term injuries. They had a good win in the last week of the Spanish league, but they should still be much more careful in the Champions League. Ancelotti does not have many alternatives. Frankly, the team has not been able to organize their attacks sufficiently since Brazilian star Vinicius Jr. was injured. Kylian Mbappé cannot carry this burden alone. That is why Atalanta is a big favorite in this match. If Real Madrid loses this match, they may not even be able to make it to the top 24. This will undoubtedly be the biggest surprise of the season.
What Madrid is doing is very worrying because they have an amazing team, even if they have injured many players, but it is because they do not know how to use the ones they have there, just with the bench they have an amazing team, but Ancelotti does not know how to use them, and it is incredible that they have lost so much in the UCL, he has to get his act together, he has to do something quickly and more so since now they are on the tightrope, if they lose right now then I have to give all the responsibility to Ancelotti, because really with so many good players and they let themselves be taken out it is because there is no adequate direction, the UCL will never be the same as La Liga.
having an amazing team that are mostly suffering from serious injury doesn't give one victory. you have to understand that they are even trying to get good result even though most of their key players are injured and the ones available are not strong enough to take part in the competitive leagues they are featuring in where they still stand as the most likely team to do well both at the home league, LaLiga and the champions league. as it stands, they will not be automatically qualifying to the round of 16 even if they win the remaining qualification games but be going through the play off phase and ensure they get an exceptional result if they hope to proceed to the round of 16.
the way the season is structured, it is going to be bad for a team like Liverpool that are on 19 points with 10 complete point above real Madrid seeing that there is a chance for a team from the play off zoon to come into the tournament and participate at that phase. this is a huge task for Ancelotti and his ability to coming out of it succesfully will tell a lot on the reason why he is knwon to be the best coach at the champions league.