Palace could consider themselves unfortunate not to have gone ahead in the first-half against Chelsea after Ebere Eze’s free-kick was chalked off by VAR, who judged Marc Guéhi to be too close to the defensive wall.
“For me it was a goal,” Lacroix said. “But the referee checked... and he said that it's going to be ‘no goal’. So yeah, we have to respect it and we have to keep pushing like we did.
“I think this is also great character: we can show that, even when things are against us, we keep our heads on the field.
“We had chances – what we have to do better is to finish them! But yeah, I think this performance will show a good season for us, and we’ll try to keep pushing.
“We are strong at the back because we are together, but it's not only the defenders, I think it's all the players on the pitch. We showed today that we are together, and this is our strength.”
