#2 Talented youngsters
Having a bagful of talented youngsters is a boon for the current La Liga holders. The club's management might just want to revise their plans and give more playing time to their young guns.
With Karim Benzema struggling to find his form and the back of the net, including Marco Asensio in the starting XI would be something that Zidane must have on the cards.
With the likes of Isco and Lucas Vázquez, the Frenchman might not even have to stress about Bale's inclusion in the team until his full recovery and him getting the hang of the game again after a brief interval.
Dani Ceballos, Borja Mayoral, Achraf Hakimi, Theo Hernández, the list goes on like this. With such young calibres and high-quality bench strength, it's not too late for Real to try out various combinations and knit together new strategies.