diff --git a/scrapy/core/downloader/manager.py b/scrapy/core/downloader/manager.py
index c82c9a8f3..94ab9404b 100644
--- a/scrapy/core/downloader/manager.py
+++ b/scrapy/core/downloader/manager.py
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ class Downloader(object):
             # downloader middleware, to speed-up the closing process
             if site.closing:
                 log.msg("Crawled while closing spider: %s" % request, \
-                    level=log.DEBUG)
+                    level=log.DEBUG, spider=spider)
                 raise IgnoreRequest
             return _
         return dfd.addBoth(finish_transferring)