IAN Evatt hopes the dramatic late win at Exeter City can be a turning point for Wanderers’ season.

Goals from Aaron Collins and Aaron Morley in the 88th and 91st minute turned fortunes on their head at St James Park after Demetri Mitchell had put the hosts ahead early in the second half.

All three goals had elements of luck about them – Exeter’s opener a poor bit of miscommunication between Ricardo Santos and Nathan Baxter, Collins’ leveller stemming from an undercooked header back to his own keeper by Jack Fitzwater and Morley’s late free kick seemingly catching out Joe Whitworth completely.

However the win arrived, Evatt said his side has to take maximum advantage.

He said: “We spoke after the game on Wednesday about moments and winning the battle in both boxes and we missed some crucial chances when we were the better team, we missed a huge chance second half and whether everyone was still thinking about it, to switch off and concede in the way we did in unacceptable and we are so much better than that.

“We had a mountain to climb but these boys are resilient, they have had to be, and as a group we are resilient and we kept going, got the goal. I’d imagine Exeter are sick of the sight of Aaron now because he’s left it to the last four days to score two winners but I genuinely thought we deserved to win the game. As an away performance, a difficult pitch, first half we should have been ahead and second half we had the best chances, so I am delighted to get the win.”

Wanderers remain in 10th spot but have now brought themselves to within four points of the top six with games in hand on most of the teams above them.

Evatt knows his side has lacked the requisite consistency to make their best moments count this season but an 11th win of the campaign can be the signal for more, he insisted.

“We have to make it that way, we have had this conversation so many times. It has to be a point in our season where we say ‘OK, we have suffered a bit and we’re nowhere near where we want to be but we are also not of it either, in both races, I believe.

“We have a big transfer window coming up and Aaron coming back has certainly helped us. He looked really confident, it was a good performance from him. And hopefully the last two goals will give us some confidence because our play to get there sometimes has been really good – it has just been the final bit.

“Szabi should probably have scored first half, he doesn’t need to square it, and that would have been a really well-worked goal which looked like us, really.

“And obviously K (Klaidi Lolos) misses a huge, huge chance and seconds later we do that.

“I am delighted the lads showed resilience to come back.”

Defensively, there was not much to admire about the way Exeter got themselves ahead, and Evatt admits his side must stop conceding so cheaply.

“It is always concerning when you concede goals of that nature because it was out of nothing,” he said. “We have got a really nasty habit at the moment – and it was the same Wednesday – but teams are just scoring goals without having to work very hard, whereas we are having to probe, create and really work to get our goals. We have to make sure we stop that.

“It’s something we’re always speaking about and trying to improve on. Certainly the last two or three games the performances have improved. That was a much better away performance and I thought Wednesday was a better away performance too, so we have to build on that.”