Topic: UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Season - page 248. (Read 58091 times)

Based on my assessment, the most vulnerable is Real Madrid's defense line. with a tight schedule, the players will be drained of energy in every competition. moreover, Real Madrid did not bring in a defender in this summer's transfer window. at least, before the players recover from their injuries, Ancelotti must be smart in rotating his players, especially the defense line. as for some of Madrid's midfielders, they will recover at least faster than the others. Camavinga's presence will be highly anticipated after he recovers from his injury, because he can fill in or be rotated into a wing-back. while Bellingham, he is still absent at least until the end of this month. "if referring to the screenshot above". well, Don Carlo will actually work around the situation that occurs in his team's squad. maybe we will see Ancelotti rotate some of his players, or maybe he will change the pattern that he applies for the upcoming matches. anyway, this competition will start soon and I'm really looking forward to it.

Sometimes we just worry too much before seeing the performance. I understand anyone who is worried about Madrid performance in the UCL right now who must have injury problems. But we also have to remember that Ancelotti has a very complete squad and on the one hand in the attack line we don't need to worry because I'm sure Mbappe and Vinic can work together to maintain their position in the standings. Ancelotti only needs a little time to have a way to strengthen the defense line which is currently a concern for most fans. Madrid still has second string players and this can be used if they really don't have any other alternatives.

Many of the names you list have been missing for a long time and Real have played very good football without these players. Alaba, for example, has been missing for more than half a year and Camavinga has been missing since the start of the season.

Bellingham and Militao will probably be ready to play again in 1-2 weeks according to Real's team doctors and these are the ones who have only recently been injured and could have a negative impact. The other players listed have been missing for some time or are easily replaceable.

This storm of injuries is beyond prediction, Real Madrid lost most of its defenders, Ancelotti is certainly very dizzy with this situation.

1. David Alaba

2. Dani Ceballos

3. Jude Bellingham

4. Eduardo Camavinga

5. Jesus Vallejo

6. Aurelien Tchouameni

7. Eder Militao

8. Ferland Mendy

With different recovery periods, the absence of a number of these players has the potential to disrupt Real Madrid's performance in the future, on the one hand this looks very worrying.

Source: - https://www.transfermarkt.com/real-madrid/sperrenundverletzungen/verein/418
            - https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/41138323/real-madrid-militao-brazil-camp-injury

With many of Real Madrid's main players injured and a poor start to the season in La Liga, it could be a factor in the team's difficult task to play well in the Champions League. Moreover, with the new format and the more demanding schedule, despite Ancelotti's efforts to keep the team consistent by maximizing the rotation of players, but it still seems that Real Madrid this season does not have as good a chance as the previous season in the Champions League.

Thus, the opportunity to fail will be something that might be worried for Mbappe too because joining Real Madrid is at least to make Mbappe easy to get the Champions League trophy. But anyway, the reality remains a difficult task considering many of the main players were injured earlier this season. But, ofcourse, they can also recover so perhaps Real Madrid will still be able to rise, and will still be a serious threat to other teams.

I think the high expectations that is placed on Mbappé is the reasons why most people become disappointed when the Real Madrid team find it difficult to win their first league match, Mbappe may have all the good qualities as a professional player and a good goal scorer but it still takes a player with an extra ordinary talent and luck to adapt quickly to the performance of a new team when one is transferred from one team that he is familiar with to a different team and that was the reason behind the poor performance of Mbappe it even affected the Real Madrid team because the coach is trying to adjust his tactics to align with the presence of the new striker Mbappe.

Real Madrid is the king of the champions League as they have repeatedly won the competition back to back more that any other team, as expected the arrival of Mbappe will boost the confidence and strength of the team and as we all know Mbappe is experienced in the champions league so we expect the Real Madrid team to be among the finalist this season.

The defense of every team is one of their strongest attributes in a match. If they’re lacking a good and strong defense, no matter how good they’re able to convert chances and score goals in the frontline, they will always concede goals and may cancel out the initial goals they’ve scored. Counter attack are a very strong vengeance on teams without good defense, they always fall back on their knees because the goals they scored cannot be protected by them till the end of the match because of the loophole in the defensive line. Real Madrid are a very competent team in the champions league, we may see their strength and what they’re capable of doing but when there is something of doubts, it may as well bring failure to them, so they should try and fix the problem in the defense also because of the effects it may have on them in the future in the champions league competitions.

That injury list is like a joke. Real Madrid is really unlucky with injuries for a long time.    They had the same problem in the previous season as well. That's why Ancelotti should have signed an extra defender this summer.

He just said that he was satisfied with the number of options he had in the area. I wonder what he is thinking about this now. I assume Carvajal will be Rüdiger's mate there temporarily. I hope this temporary time won't be too long. Otherwise I think Real Madrid would have even bigger problems in the Champions League. Even against smaller teams I mean. Teams with good counter-attack skills can catch them off their guard.

Ancelotti plays a very simple game, he is not like Pep Guardiola, and because of that he will not have that much hard time adjusting any player at any position. Even with injuries, if you just take any player in the squad that can replace the injured ones, and put them in the game, they will automatically play the way they should be, there is no steep learning curve for the players.

In contrast, at Pep system you would have to train a lot and play a few games to get adjusted to how to play his system, it's both tiki-take like he used at Barcelona, but now he plays a bit more from the middle instead of from the wings compared to old days, and he is trying to not do gegenpress too much like he used to as well. Ancelotti has none of that, he just defends, and then passes out to fast wingers and strikers, that's it, end of story. They should be fine.

It seems that this season Madrid will find few of its players on the bench considering the number of their players who are injured, the international break is a nightmare for Madrid at the moment even though they have prepared to return to the top of the standings and also face a busy schedule, what is happening to Madrid at the moment actually reminds me with Madrid rejection of FIFA and UEFA policies which were previously considered very detrimental to the club, busy schedule from national team which has to play, of course  will have a negative impact on the club, the injuries that have befallen Madrid at the moment will obviously disrupt their performance ahead of the match week 5 and also the Champions League is  played, I think what is happening to the Madrid squad at the moment is certainly beyond Ancelotti expectations who has indeed closed the possibility of an earlier transfer of players,  But even so, we can't blame Ancelotti because after all Madrid is still possible to try to rotate the injured player with some academy players later.

All clubs must have anticipated something like this, but what Real Madrid felt in my opinion was quite unlucky, because they felt something like this when the league had just started and also in their game they had not been able to fully find their best game, as evidenced by the 2 draws they felt from the 4 matches they had played.
As a coach, Ancelotti would definitely be very dizzy finding that many of his players were injured. He had to implement the second plan that he should have had from the start. The coach must have many plans, both regarding game strategy, the composition of players to be fielded (rotation), to players who can play in various positions. Last season, Ancelotti had rotated the positions of the players and it was quite successful and now he has to do more than that.

Real Madrid's injury list is piling up, and it's a damn problem. We're talking about a club with galactic expectations, playing in every competition imaginable. You can't run these guys into the ground. Ancelotti knows how to handle things. Managing this squad is only for the master. Mbappe's got the world on his shoulders, you can't burn him out before Christmas. The medical team needs to step up, too. This isn't just about fitness, it's about preventing these breakdowns

Nobody likes seeing their team on the back foot. But Real Madrid is built on resilience. They'll find a way. Ancelotti needs to be smart, the players need to be disciplined, and we, the fans, need to be patient

High expectations for Mbappe I think are reasonable because Mbappe has very qualified qualities so that many people predict that Real Madrid's strength will increase after Mbappe's arrival, regardless of Real Madrid's performance not developing at the beginning of this season, I think everything still needs a process and at the beginning of the season we cannot measure the true strength of the team.

Real Madrid is the team that has won the most CL, in terms of quality they are also quite good so they are favored and the fans have high expectations not only because of Mbappe's arrival, it is like that every season, and I think that's normal.

Personally, I am also surprised by the situation that befell the Real Madrid players, but what is clear is that it is very difficult to research what the cause is, which is why Real Madrid players are hit by so many injuries and if you look at it now, of course there are a lot of Real Madrid players who are injured.  Because currently many players are injured, of course this sometimes makes Real Madrid fans a little nervous.

However, what you say is true because there are many star players at Real Madrid who are of course busy in international matches and also defending their clubs such as in the UCL domestic league and so on. Of course this will create the potential for these players to suffer injuries. but what is certain is that this is the challenge for star players who of course must be able to really maintain their performance, health conditions and so on.

Of course, in this case Ancelotti must really be able to look after the Real Madrid players. and of course this is the first season for Mbappe and Real Madrid have wanted this star player for a long time and indeed, if for example Real Madrid don't become champions in the UCL or in other leagues, of course many Real Madrid fans will be disappointed and of course we'll see what happens next. But of course, no matter what, Real Madrid will still be the favorite team to win the UCL title and others.

Even before mbappes arrival, the expectations where already so high that upon his arrival, some fans want to see trophies already (LOL) of which he actually did, his debut got them a trophy but again they needed to slow down a bit on the expectations because he's human and cannot at the same time meet up with all of that just already, it has to be a whole season long to finally pass a verdict on his entire performance so far or even at least till mid season then we could begin to feel if he's not been awesome or brilliant enough. Thw strike position that was filed with players already before mbappes arrival were mainly substituted strikers who aren't originally strikers but mbappe is a striker naturally and that's the big difference. Currently Madrid isn't got an absolute pattern just yet, but they have got a whole bulk of time to get that fixed.

Last season he also experienced the same condition where there were several important players who were injured so they had to bring in several substitutes. But talking about the form of the game Real Madrid managed to give their best by winning several titles as targeted by Ancelotti. Currently the form of the game that has not been seen is more consistent and I think Ancelotti needs to see the position that is the problem so that he can improve it slowly.

Now their strength is also so complete where the front line is getting better than before but in terms of collective play it has not been seen perfectly. I am sure that slowly Ancelotti will be able to overcome the problem and they will return to their best form and may need time to perfect the problem.

Most of the players in Madrid's squad are in very good fitness. Madrid players suffered very few injuries. But this season Madrid have suffered several key simultaneous injuries. And it was completely unexpected. And I guess Ancelotti was not ready for that at all. And I am worried if Madrid can perform well in their next two matches.

Madrid will play against Real Sociedad in the next match of La Liga. This is an away match for Madrid. And Real Madrid lost points in the first two away matches this season. So the chances of Madrid getting 3 points against Sociedad are slim. However, the Champions League match against Stuttgart is very important for Madrid. Looking forward to see what strategy Ancelotti adopts to win this match. Because several players of the Madrid team will be out of the squad due to injuries in this match. So it will be difficult for Real Madrid to beat Stuttgart.

Well, the bottom line is in your opinion and it really happened. Even though Real Madrid is having difficulties because of the many injured players, it doesn't feel like they are being punished and instead they will fight with fewer numbers. We can't underestimate this considering that this is Real Madrid and it will still be like that as long as the legacy of its predecessors is still attached to the souls of its current successors.

Maybe some teams that will be Real Madrid's opponents feel very advantaged by the many key players who are still injured but if they are careless it will only destroy them. The rest of these teams must maintain their concentration during the match and not make Real Madrid angry when they score first because there will always be a comeback that Los Blancos usually do in every difficult match.

The coach should have anticipated this, because every season there will definitely be a risk where they have to lose players due to injuries experienced by their players and now they are feeling something like this. Real Madrid is inhabited by many young players, in terms of quality I do not doubt them but in terms of experience they cannot be said to be very good. Because in football the ability and quality of a player are not the only factors, but experience will also be an important factor, that's what I think is still lacking from them in the sense that they still have to develop a lot.
Ancelotti's intelligence will be tested again now, because he must be smart in implementing strategies with the remaining players in his squad. He must be able to show that he is very capable of overcoming this problem.

The problem is that Mbappe hasn't arrived at Real Madrid for a long time so he may need some time to adjust himself to Real Madrid. Real Madrid already had quality players in the strike positions, but when Mbappe joined Real Madrid, Real Madrid had to make some changes to their attacking line-up. That's why Real Madrid's performance seems a bit random now, but it goes without saying that they will return to normal performance in a short time. The new season of Champions League is probably not started yet and I believe Real Madrid will perform very well when the Champions League matches start.