"So we knew that if we could alleviate them scoring goals, we would have a good chance. You know a draw is still a good point regardless.
"It's a good way to start the season and I think we can move forward with this performance in the second half.
"One thing we talked about before the game was embracing the toughness that Chelsea are going to bring. It wasn't going to perfect, but as long as we could keep a clean sheet, that's number one for us."
On the issue of Eze's disallowed free-kick, the American reflected that he hadn't seen an issue with the goal in live play.
"We're pretty disappointed," he added. "I think everybody in the stadium thought it was a goal and somehow VAR saw something else, you know you live and die by VAR these days.
"But regardless, it was it was a good free-kick and hopefully we get a few more of those."