Will West Ham use this win as a springboard in their battle to stay in the Premier League?
With a home match to come against title-chasing Manchester City on Saturday, the Hammers made seven changes – yet it was a trusted and familiar face who helped send them through.
Bowen has served West Ham tremendously during his six years at the club and the England attacker will be required to play a huge part over the next few weeks if his side are to avoid relegation.
Eighteenth – level on 28 points with 17th-placed Nottingham Forest – West Ham have nine league games to save themselves.
But this latest win, after last week’s crucial victory at Fulham, suggests they are on an upward trajectory compared to Tottenham, who sit just two places and one point above them in the table.
This season has been littered with low moments like the 5-1 home defeat by Chelsea back in August and the 3-0 surrender at rock-bottom Wolves in January.
Yet a campaign that started with Graham Potter at the helm could astonishingly end with a Wembley appearance.
Beat Leeds in the sixth round and West Ham can look forward to a day out at the national stadium in the semi-finals of a competition they last won in 1980.
