Precisely that attitude of the rivals to know that they are in a bad moment and that they can beat him, that it is not like previous years that no matter how they did it, they could not win is the biggest difference.
I think Julian Alvarez must be very happy with his change of scenery, right now he is in the leader of Spain being important while his former team that refused to give him more prominence is in that bad streak, I'm not saying that he is happy for the bad moment of the city, but at least he must be happy where he is.
Talking about the other scenario, United looks like a hopeless case, they brought in the Coach with the best possible current situation and they continue with their poor stability on the pitch, maybe they also need to do what many are saying..... Bring in a striker like Gyokeres and bring back Amorin's prodigal son and see if a revamp up front has an effect on all the other lines.