Tottenham defender Jan Vertonghen feels winning the Capital One Cup can be a game-changer for the club.
Head coach Mauricio Pochettino has talked about the mental weaknesses of his squad but Vertonghen, one of the leaders of this new-look side, believes that a first trophy in six years is all it would take to toughen them up.
"One hundred per cent," he said. "It gives a bit of belief that we can do big things with the team and I think it would help us.
"We have a lot of good players but sometimes you just need it to click and I hope we find it now - in the Capital One Cup. We are in the quarter-finals and hopefully we can force something. When I was at Ajax [before joining Spurs in the summer of 2012], the club went through a period of not winning a trophy and you lose a bit of belief that you're capable of it.
"But then we won the Dutch Cup in 2010 and after that we won the league twice in a row before I left. Ajax won it the following two years, too, so when you win one trophy, you start believing that you can do it again."
