With Carlo Ancelotti as their coach Madrid usually gets better when they add new players to team. Right now they are getting used to new players and dealing with some of their best players being injured. But these problems will not be big deal once they make it to next round.
The previous season was like that, but today they were quite difficult. They have played 6 matches and the result is that they are at number 20. They still have 2 matches left. It seems that Real Madrid must enter the Play-Off phase to qualify for the next phase. There are still chances but they are worse than the previous season. If Real Madrid wants to improve the team's condition, then they must take advantage of this transfer market moment. They must start preparing players to replace players who are starting to age like Modric.
Ancelotti does have a great ability to manage the team and maximise the potential of each player, even with his experience and expertise, he can overcome the challenges and difficulties of madrid before, but in my opinion the conditions this season are very different from previous seasons, because of the busy schedule including after the change in the format of the champions league, the injured squad is also the reason for madrid slump at the moment, apart from their absence in the transfer market last summer.
Madrid position in the champions league is still unsafe now, so they need two consecutive wins in their last two matches, I hope madrid can use the January transfer window with well, because inevitably they have to immediately improve the depth of the squad if they still want to be favourites in the champions league and la liga this season.
Real Madrid will definitely qualify to the round of 16, because they are playing two weak clubs to complete their matches. If you have observed in their last two matches, you will see that they are improving in performance and it will continue like that till they pick form. I believe that Madrid difficult times are over, and this is the time for them to start kicking asses.