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#2 Overconfidence
When a team looks as strong and plays as well as Real Madrid are right now, they are always prone to taking things for granted. This is something that happened with Carlo Ancelotti’s Madrid. The Italian’s team were a brutally efficient machine that knew nothing other than winning.
The Blancos went on a 22-match winning streak under the tutelage of the former Paris Saint-Germain boss, but things went awry after a while. The tactician played a very fluid system that didn’t have any holding players in midfield and he had to pay for it in the end.
Real’s winning run made it seem like they didn’t require a defensive player at the centre of the park, but in the end, it cost the former Juventus manager his job. Zidane has created a similarly ruthless team that are yet to lose an official game after last season’s Clasico defeat at the hands of Barca.
So there is always a chance that the club fall prey to the fangs of overconfidence.
