Bilic: Mourinho is best around
The self proclaimed Special One has had a seriously dodgy start to the season who arrive at Upton park sitting in twelfth place.
But Bilic claims it’s nothing more than a blip and believes the Portuguese will lead them into the top four this season.
Speaking ahead of the gae he said: “It’s a big challenge for us, it’s a big test. It’s a special game because they are the champions.
“And you can easily say he is the best manager around. He’s been doing it all his career, he’s brilliant. He’s Jose Mourinho!
“It just shows how strange football is. It’s the same team, the champions.
“I know Mourinho and he’s always motivated. His teams are always hungry and everyone expected them, maybe not to be top after nine games, but not to be where they are now.
I watched most of their games. Sometimes you play the same way but you hit the post and the opposition don’t hit the post, when last year it happened the other way round.
“It doesn’t have to be anything major. You lose a couple of games – and from their point of view drawing is like losing – and suddenly people say ‘what happened to Chelsea?’ but it’s nothing big or major.
“If it was he would be the first to change it, but sometimes it’s those invisible things you can’t detect and you have to work hard to try to change it.
“Things will definitely change for them, we just hope it won’t be against us. I see them finishing in the top four.”