The Premier League champs needed a late Carlos Tevez strike to snatch a 1-0 victory against a superior Wigan side at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday night.
Platt felt the team's tough workout over the past week had affected performance, the game coming after a demanding derby win at Manchester United and an FA Cup semi-final victory over Chelsea at Wembley.
Platt, the first-team coach at Eastlands, said: "I think we are probably feeling the effects of the two big games we have had, mentally more than anything, what it takes out of you.
"We saw on the pitch we couldn't get anything going. There was a lack of energy about us. Maybe we were mentally tired.
"We didn't look as though we were going to create anything and I think it needed a flash of brilliance to unblock the game, but that is what we know we have got in the team.
"The physical side is one thing but we can recuperate by fuelling the boys right, getting the right food into them, giving them the right rest and the right cures.
"It is not the physical side that is the problem, but the mental side. That game will have brought us back to earth.
On the hard-fought win over the Latics Platt said: "Wigan are a good team. It is probably not the kind of opposition we wanted to face three days after a semi-final — and that coming on the back of the Man Utd game — because they keep the ball, and if you can't get near them because of a lack of energy it gets frustrating.
"It gets frustrating for the crowd, frustrating for the players because normally we have the lion's share of possession here.
City's victory saw the Red Devils' lead at the top of the table cut to 13 points and even though they have a game in hand, nobody at Eastlands seriously believes the title race is still alive.
Platt said: "It is irrelevant what they do. Unless they open the door completely and have a big collapse then it's over, it's been over for a long time.
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