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.
It is not easy for such change to happen and until the weak team improve in their performance, they can’t perform a miracle to get better than the teams they’re playing against now. The champions league is the game of champions and I don’t see it that most of the teams that are doing well now will fumble and begin to perform lesser than they are now when the my reach the knockout stage which happens to be when the league becomes more tougher and requires them to put more energy in the game. The round of 16 is going to be tougher than this season and I see all teams qualifying for that stage going to play better and try to qualify for the quarterfinals again. Any team that really wants to continue in this competition should improve from now.
Well, there's no doubt about that. In fact, I liked it because Mbappé finally scored goals against a team like Atalanta in the UCL and this is giving him back his confidence. In fact, it was noticeable that the whole team congratulated him for that. Mbappé is Ancvelotti's main spearhead, that's why he keeps him in the game. So far, I think they can do well and advance to the final. If they can , they are confident and have the material to do it. In fact, I would like Mbappé to score a hat-trick in the next game and secure their qualification.
We just have to wait to see what he can do as the striker of the team. He doesn’t need to score an hat-trick before we can tell how good he is to make his team qualify for the next round of the competition. They just need to have a collective effort put together to see themselves prevailing for the next round. They have really had a very tough time in the past this season in the champions league, hopefully they can be able to put in their best and make it to the final rounds of the competition which they need to in order to uphold their heritage status in the champions league.