Bottom-placed VfB Stuttgart completed training with Bruno Labbadia on Sunday.

The day after the 3-0 defeat in the Bundesliga at 1. FC Union Berlin, the 57-year-old was on the pitch with the substitutes. In view of the next defeat under Labbadia, there had previously been media reports about a possible imminent separation.

Labbadia only became coach of the Swabian Bundesliga club for the second time in December. In eleven league games only one win was achieved. On Wednesday, the Swabians will play the quarter-finals of the DFB Cup at second division club 1. FC Nürnberg, next Sunday the important game at VfL Bochum, which is also threatened with relegation, is scheduled.