Tottenham Hotspur believe once again. Confidence in the Londoners' ability to pull off an escape act in this unwonted Premier League relegation battle had been stripped away over the course of the campaign, but Roberto De Zerbi has changed the mindset.
Back-to-back wins in the Premier League have allowed Spurs to leapfrog rivals West Ham United. They are now out of the danger zone and their are three matches left to play. Two points clear, there's so much on the line.
While winning home form still eludes them, Tottenham face Leeds United down N17 on Saturday afternoon, and a win against the 14th-place Whites, who are unbeaten in six Premier League games, would mark another significant stride - especially if the Hammers fail to beat Arsenal the day before.
De Zerbi has reinstilled a winning spirit and bite about this Spurs side, but they are certainly missing a superstar presence, someone like Gareth Bale or Harry Kane to lead the way forward.
More immediately, though, the Lilywhites need to maintain this new degree of fluency and shore up their backline.
Spurs' defensive problems in 25/26
Tottenham have committed ten errors directly leading to a goal this season, underscoring the fragile and uncertain nature of the Londoners' system, spread across three managers.
Whether Tottenham stay up or they don't, so much needs to change. Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven are both facing uncertain futures down N17, and the supporting cast at the rearguard leave too much to be desired for them to play prominent roles next year.
Injuries or not, there's still no excuse for Tottenham to have shipped as many goals as they have across the course of the Premier League campaign.
Romero and Van de Ven are two of Tottenham's best players, though, and in a weird irony, might have been the standouts this season in spite of the wider issues in defence.
Who says that defenders can't be superstars? After all, Tottenham have a generational talent who could end up rivalling the likes of Gareth Bale down Hotspur Way, and he hasn't even featured under De Zerbi.
Spurs have hit gold on the new Bale
Players like Bale only come around once in a blue moon, but for Tottenham they may have signed their new version in Luka Vuskovic.
Albeit the 19-year-old is a centre-back, not a rip-roaring winger with generational attacking quality, but we're not talking about positional value here; rather, unique skill and the potential to develop into a world-class superstar.
Currently out on loan in Germany with Hamburg, Vuskovic is the real deal, a teenager, yet one of the most impressive defenders in the Bundesliga, winning 7.5 duels per game and scoring five goals across 26 games from the back.
Maybe there is something Bale-esque about him after all. Tottenham need to stay in the Premier League, lest they are forced to part with a precocious talent whose talent demands football higher than the Championship.
Having signed for the club from Hajduk Split for £12m in 2023, when he was only 16 years old, Vuskovic has yet to play for the Londoners, but even so, his impressive displays across a series of loan spells have lifted his value up to £43m, according to CIES Football Observatory, marking a staggering 250% increase.
Though Spurs already have one of the youngest sides in the Premier League, Vuskovic plays with an age-belying maturity that suggests he could become a mainstay in De Zerbi's defence from the get-go.
After all, this is a "freak talent", says analyst and Como scout Ben Mattinson, who is joined by many in being awed by the Croatian prodigy's athleticism, strength and command of the defensive game.
Vuskovic is not a forward, but he is a unique defender. Authoritative and instinctive, he does not bring a cerebral approach to the defensive game, but instead relies on a natural understanding that allows him to mix defensive brawn with a ball-playing focus.
Though Spurs have two top centre-backs in Romero and Van de Ven, Vuskovic might be cut from finer cloth, and he could end up emerging as one of the hottest stars in all of Europe next season, emulating Bale in presence if not position.