Ian Evatt reckons the “football gods were smiling” on Wanderers as they recorded another magnificent comeback victory against Burton.

Trailing 1-0 with three minutes to go after an exasperating night, Amadou Bakayoko volleyed an equalising goal before Jon Dadi Bodvarsson added a second nearly eight minutes into stoppage time.

Evatt’s side had struggled to break Burton down in the second half but picked up after a succession of substitutions, including both goal-scorers.

“When the opposition come with a gameplan like that the first goal becomes absolutely vital,” Evatt said. “We had a couple of decent situations in the first half, Dapo had a particularly good chance, and if we score then it changes the whole game pattern.

“There was disruption, I don’t think the game was in play very often, and really we couldn’t get any type of head of steam up in that second half until they scored.

“I made some lucky changes again and the players came on, they were aggressive, we played on the front foot with belief and momentum, just like Saturday.

“When you see the ball hit the post with Kieran and then Conor’s chance, it would have been easy for the players just to accept it wasn’t their night. But they didn’t, they kept going, they stuck together and they deservedly got the winner.”

Evatt said he never lost faith that his side could get back into the game, even once Burton had made the breakthrough.

“To be honest I have a huge amount of belief in these players,” he said. “We don’t score late goals by chance.

“It is the way we probe, the way we ask questions, and teams find it very difficult to snuff us out for that long.

“I’d almost say the football gods smiled on us because we were the only team trying to win the game and they are ever so dangerous from set plays. We have to give them some credit as well because they came to execute a gameplan, whether you like it or you don’t, you have to give it some credit because it was working for a long period.

“I was delighted for those two because they have taken some stick of late, missed a couple of opportunities, but to come off an impact it like they did was a lot like the end of last year, really.”

All eyes had been on Evatt’s line-up after experimenting with Dapo Afolayan as a wing-back on Saturday – and the Bolton boss stayed with the 3-4-1-2 formation from the start against Burton.

He switched a couple of times in the second half to try and muster a reaction from his side and was aided by two of his midfield replacement, Josh Sheehan and Kieran Lee, making a big impact.

“Now we have everyone fit we are able to flit in between formations and systems,” he said.

“We can constantly evolve during a game and make it difficult for the opposition to manage us because they come with one gameplan for a 3-5-2, but we can switch to 4-3-3 for a spell, as we did for 25-30 minutes. It can ask different questions.

“We can switch back as well and fortunately we weren’t talking about Kieran or Conor’s chance, it was Big Jon who got the winner and it was fantastic.”