"I'm not going to sit here and say the players lacked effort and desire to get back in the game, I think we showed that in abundance," said Evans.
"We have to produce (consistency) to go get into the play-offs – top 10 first of all.
"People are entitled to say in Saturday's first half we were laboured in possession and it was slow, very reminiscent of Bradford on Tuesday (a 1-0 Football League Trophy defeat).
"But I don't think anyone can say in the last 20 minutes – apart from the goals – that we didn't play well, we didn't open them up and have crosses, balls off the line and handballs in the box not given."
"I don't think we're done," he insisted. "If we'd won on Saturday we'd have been in 11th but we have a difficult game at Blackpool and we need to produce the type of performance we did at Birmingham.
"We're also hopeful in the next week or two we get back some of the players missing."