Evans hopes Northern Ireland learn from Nations League

Valentino Lazaro's late winner saw Northern Ireland defeated 2-1 by Austria on Sunday, making it four defeats from four and relegation in their Nations League group. 

Evans, 28, scored his first international goal in eight years to make the scoreline 1-1, as it looked like Northern Ireland would hold onto their first point of the competition.

Speaking after the game, Evans said: "It's always disappointing when you lose the game with the last kick of the ball.

"But we can take a lot of positives out of the performance.

"The manner of the way we played; going a goal down we came back to level the game and at that stage it looked like we were the only side going to go win the game, but it wasn't to be.

"We have to take great confidence from the way we have been playing in the campaign and take that into the Euro 2020 qualifiers.

"There's a big transition in the squad with a lot of young players coming. It's been a good learning curve for all the young lads and the rest of us, because we were punished for every mistake after not taking chances.

"I think we can take these experiences into the qualifiers and be a better team for it.

"We're playing better football and have a better squad than when we qualified for Euro 2016 so there is a lot of belief going into the next campaign."