Evans celebrates his opener for Wales against France at Ninian Park

Manchester City's Evans scored a hat-trick in Wales' thrilling Under-21 UEFA Championship qualifying match.

The result sees Wales close the gap on France and Evans feels if they show the same desire, they can cause a shock and qualify from Group 10.

"If we continue to play like that then we'll have a good chance," he said.

What you have to realise is this is a very good bunch of young players Wales Under-21 manager Brian Flynn

Evans put Wales ahead just before the break with a glorious show of skill, but France led after 76 minutes through Yoann Gourcuff and Dimitri Payet.

Wales soon hit back with two goals in three minutes from an Evans penalty and a Mark Bradley tap in.

Evans then completed his hat-trick in injury time with another penalty.

"It was a great game to play in and I enjoyed playing in it," he added.

"I didn't think we would come back but it shows how competitive we are in, we never gave up.

"When you go 2-1 down to a team like France you do start to think it is not going to be your night

"But I think this shows that the lads had faith in themselves and each other."

The victory, possibly Wales' greatest at this level, takes Brian Flynn's side to within a point of group pace setters France and Romania, and with a game in hand.

606: DEBATE To not only win, but to come back from 2-1 down and win 4-2 shows a lot of courage and determination oldninianpark

But the game nearly failed to go ahead due to a floodlight failure and France have threatened to write a complaint to UEFA after a 15 minute delay to the kick-off.

The players were forced to wait in the tunnel for several minutes and Evans admitted it was difficult on the players.

"We were waiting in the tunnel for about five minutes and were getting a bit stiff but we kept our heads on the game and think that showed with our start," he said.

Under-21 manager Brian Flynn was delighted but not surprised with what he saw from his young side, which had an average age of just 18.

Flynn said: "There were some good individual performances, but this was an all-round team display.

"But that's what we've been working on this week and the display didn't surprise me, although I'm certainly delighted with it.

"What you have to realise is this is a very good bunch of young players. They did extremely well because France worked very hard to stop us playing."