- Mads Hermansen has been West Ham’s starting goalkeeper since late January
- The shot stopper has six clean sheets this season
- The Hammers play Crystal Palace on Monday night
West Ham United currently sit above the Premier League’s bottom three but at one point their top flight status made for bleak viewing. Under Nuno Espirito Santo in 2026, the tide has begun to turn and the Hammers are now in firm control of their future in the division.
There are many reason’s for West Ham‘s upturn in form, but none more so than the defensive unite. The likes of Konstantinos Mavropanos and Axel Disasi has stepped up but one of biggest changes Nuno made, has proved the most fruitful.
At the end of January, the Hammers boss replaces Alphonse Areola with Mads Hermansen in net, and the Danish shot stopper has not looked back. Since the change, the 25-year-old has helped Nuno’s side collect five clean sheets, earning him a Denmark call up, where he made his international debut.
Mads Hermansen’s West Ham career revival
After moving to West Ham from Leicester City in the summer, Hermansen was thrust into the starting position but it wasn’t smooth sailing. The 25-year-old was dropped but is now back in the team and performing better than ever.
Speaking to Sky Sports, the shot stopper has underlined the start to his Hammers career, and just how ti turned around.
“I’m quite an emotional guy, and when things get emotional, I try to ask myself how I can take all this emotional stuff out of the football part of my life,” Hermansen said.
“Then [I] just get my job done and do everything I can, so every night when I go to bed I can say to myself, ‘I did everything I could to improve and to show myself the best way possible.’
“Those questions I had to ask myself in that period, I’ve really learned to bring that along now when I’m playing, which has helped me a lot.
“It’s easy coming out of a tough period saying it was really good for me, but I really learned a lot from it.”
Now, with West Ham in control of their destiny, the goalkeeper says fear of the drop is a driving force for the team.
“We’ve been in this for quite many months,” he added. “The fear of where we might go is not easy to work with.
“But praise to everyone here at the club for keeping the spirits high and making us believe that we can turn it around.”
