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Bruno Labbadia's Hamburg future in balance after defeat at Freiburg

Hamburg will hold a board meeting on Wednesday to discuss the future of coach Bruno Labbadia.

A 1-0 defeat at Freiburg on Tuesday has increased the pressure on former Bayer Leverkusen and Stuttgart coach Labbadia, whose side have yet to win in the Bundesliga this season.

The result followed a 4-0 reverse at home to Leipzig, and the club's patience in their coach appears to be wearing thin.

"I've got to let a game like this sink in first and then I will talk with the coach," Hamburg chairman Dietmar Beiersdorfer told Sky Sport.

"Bruno Labbadia is our coach and I don't have to give him my backing every day, but we're just not delivering at the moment.

"I've got to put Hamburg first and nobody else. The frustration is very high because we had imagined things going differently.

"We were poor -- very poor -- particularly in the second half, and that was absolutely insufficient."

Hamburg's next game is against champions Bayern Munich at the weekend.

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