Real Madrid's Julen Lopetegui insists he feels the club's support despite losing four of the five La Liga games in September.
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Real Madrid coach Julen Lopetegui said he did not fear for his job after his side lost 2-1 to Levante at the Bernabeu and chalked up the club's longest ever run without a goal, saying "football had been unjust."
Madrid were 2-0 down in only 13 minutes, Raphael Varane at fault both times as Jose Luis Morales put the visitors ahead and Roger Marti doubled the lead from the penalty spot.
Casemiro and Mariano Diaz hit the woodwork with headers, but 10 minutes into the second half Madrid found themselves a club record 481 minutes without a goal.
Marcelo pulled one back with 18 minutes left and substitute Karim Benzema then hit the post with a 20-yard shot, but there was to be no late equaliser and Madrid are five games without a win for the first time in 10 seasons.
But Lopetegui told his postmatch news conference he was not worried about club president Florentino Perez making a change.
"That is the last thing I am thinking about," he said. "The players do not deserve this punishment. The dressing-room is down after a defeat at home -- football has been unjust with us.
"I am just thinking about lifting them for the important Champions League game on Tuesday [against Viktoria Plzen] where we can turn this dynamic around."
Lopetegui said Madrid were attacking well but lacked fortune in front of goal. "We had 34 or 35 shots at goal, 14 on target, nine corners, four balls off the woodwork, a goal disallowed," he said.
"Stats do not count much in football -- it is goals that count. But we attacked a lot, and attacked very well. I am sure that football will soon start giving to us what it is taking away at the moment."
Despite his team having conceded first for the seventh time in 11 outings this season, Lopetegui denied they had a problem at the beginning of games.
"The team did not start badly -- we were attacking well in the opening stages, made a mistake and got punished," he said.
"They caught us with a goal when we were doing well. On a collective level we were making chances. We must keep trying so that this feeling of playing well is translated into goals for us."
Asked whether he was trying to put a positive spin on things, the former Spain coach said: "I am not trying to convince anybody, just describing what happened on the pitch."
Source: espn.co.uk