diff --git a/tests/test_spidermiddleware_urllength.py b/tests/test_spidermiddleware_urllength.py
index ee79c109f..171f4ddfd 100644
--- a/tests/test_spidermiddleware_urllength.py
+++ b/tests/test_spidermiddleware_urllength.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class TestUrlLengthMiddleware(TestCase):
 
         crawler = get_crawler(Spider)
         self.spider = crawler._create_spider('foo')
-        self.stats = self.spider.crawler.stats
+        self.stats = crawler.stats
         self.mw = UrlLengthMiddleware.from_settings(settings)
 
         self.response = Response('http://scrapytest.org')