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It would be crazy to sack Lopetegui – Ramos

Sergio Ramos thinks it would be "crazy" for Real Madrid to sack Julen Lopetegui despite Los Blancos seeing their winless run stretch to four games with Saturday's 1-0 defeat to Deportivo Alaves.

Madrid are enduring a dismal run, which began with a resounding 3-0 loss at Sevilla on September 26.

"Other people take decisions like that, but it's never good when there is a change in coach. It would be crazy," Ramos said to reporters in Vitoria on Saturday.

"We have to move on, because the season is very long and there's a very long way to go. Whoever says Real Madrid are dead is always proved wrong in the long term.

"We [the players] are the first people that need to do more to improve and we're trying to do that. It's not fair to point the blame at anyone, we're all conscious of the reality.

"Results are what people talk about and especially when you lose, but we are still committed, we are still ambitious and we still want to win, it's in our DNA. We're on the right path despite the bad results."

Madrid are next in action at home to Levante after the international break.