It isn't a good time to be Joe Hart right now.

After a slow start to the goalkeeper's loan spell at West Ham, all the indications are that he's going to lose his place at England's No. 1 to Stoke's Jack Butland when the Three Lions take on Malta and Slovakia next week.

Hart has won 71 caps for his country and been his nation's undisputed first choice keeper for the last six years, but after being bombed out of Manchester City by Pep Guardiola last summer his career has taken a serious nosedive.

This has been a familiar pose for Hart recently (
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John Peters)

Last season's loan spell at Torino didn't bring the return to form that he'd have hoped, and he's started his current loan spell at West Ham by conceding seven goals in two games to Manchester United and Southampton.

And those matches have extended a quite miserable recent record for Hart - one which compares disastrously to other Premier League goalkeepers.

He conceded two free-kicks to Scotland's Leigh Griffiths in June (
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AFP/Getty)

In terms of games for club and country, it is now 12 matches since Hart last kept a clean sheet (England's 2-0 win over Lithuania in March). Among Premier League keepers, Burnley's Tom Heaton and Brighton's Matthew Ryan are next on that list with six.

But it is when you only take club games into account that Hart's record looks incredibly bad.

The loan to Torino didn't quite work out (
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Valerio Pennicino)

He's gone a remarkable 22 games without a shutout in the colours of Torino and West Ham, with his last clean sheet in a club game coming in Torino's goalless draw with Sassuolo in January.

Heaton and Chelsea's Thibaut Courtois are next on that list with a measly five.

Club games since last keeping a clean sheet

To make matters worse for Hart, when he was rested for the Hammers' Carabao Cup clash at Cheltenham on Wednesday night, his replacement Adrian promptly kept a clean sheet in a 2-0 win.

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