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Stewart Downing believes West Ham’s FA Cup flops can still finish above Tottenham and qualify for Europe.

But after the feeble surrender at the Hawthorns, the England winger warned they must not allow six months of promise to evaporate into mid-table anonymity.

Travelling fans booed off their team, but Sunday’s derby at White Hart Lane offers West Ham a quick route to redemption.

And Downing admitted: “If I’d paid a lot of money to come and watch that, I’d have felt the same way.

"But if we get a good result against Tottenham, we can put it to bed and have a good finish to the season.

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“If you told the fans we get knocked out of the cup but finish in Europe, they will take that.

"We owe Tottenham one, after they beat us in the last minute on the opening day of the season, and I don’t accept they’re going to finish above us.

“They spent a lot of money and man-for-man I don’t think they’re any better than us.

“We don’t want to waste all the good work, and all the top teams we’ve beaten, over the first six months of the season.”