Bilic says quality will come through character

Slaven Bilic is looking for home comforts when the team run on to the London Stadium for the first time this season this evening.

Commenting ahead of the game he said: “It’s good to play at home again – the home form is the key

“The players know we have to begin physically, to go back to basics, dig in. Go back to those things like being together, character, chin up, close them down.

“It is about that and through that the quality will come. That’s what they know, 100 per cent, and that is the most important thing – much more important than the other things.

“If you remember in the first season, we had big games for different reasons. The whole of last season was like that, so I’m used to it. We’ve been there before and we showed that we can cope with it.

“We showed in difficult moments we have the quality and the character – as individuals and as a team – to get out of that situation. It means we can do it again this season.”