Sometimes people forget the experience of the team that is one of the strengths for Madrid to get good results every season. In Madrid's history we all know how the final result is and in my opinion this season even though Madrid has to experience a little problem with injured players, but just look in January Ancelotti will get new players to advance to the round of 16.
Madrid may end up in the play-off position, but that doesn't mean Madrid can't get into the round of 16.
A lot will change in the next month and we will see teams that currently look strong become worse and teams that look bad will become better.
Not that people actually did forgot that the experience of a team could mean a lot and aswell help a lot but the thing is that a team can actually become so terrible that people begin to loose so much interest and confidence in the team to the point it feels their experience doesn't really matters and even the team becomes psychologically affected and their performance and productivity drop even with the level of experience that have got because change is always consistent.and will happen at any ti.e especially when it becomes needed.
I understand the concern when a top team looks very bad when losing form and team experience will just be ignored. But what I mean by experience here is when Madrid has problems with injured players, of course the coach and management will contribute fully to the upcoming transfer market. And they will target reliable players who definitely want to join Madrid. Because Madrid is a team that has a very good historical experience in the UCL. So when a reliable player is offered to join Madrid, 80% of the new players will accept the offer. Well, this is what I mean by team experience that can change bad performance to be stronger. Like Barcelona who has good experience in the past and now even though they appear with ordinary players, but actually the players chosen by Barcelona are quality players.