diff --git a/scrapy_zyte_api/providers.py b/scrapy_zyte_api/providers.py
index 34f5159b..4042775c 100644
--- a/scrapy_zyte_api/providers.py
+++ b/scrapy_zyte_api/providers.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 from scrapy import Request
 from scrapy.crawler import Crawler
 from scrapy.utils.defer import maybe_deferred_to_future
-from scrapy_poet import InjectionMiddleware, PageObjectInputProvider
+from scrapy_poet import PageObjectInputProvider
 from web_poet import (
     AnyResponse,
     BrowserHtml,
@@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ class ZyteApiProvider(PageObjectInputProvider):
 
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
-        self._injection_mw = None
         self._should_track_auto_fields = None
         self._tracked_auto_fields = set()
 
@@ -102,23 +101,7 @@ def _track_auto_fields(self, crawler: Crawler, request: Request, cls: Type):
             )
         if self._should_track_auto_fields is False:
             return
-        if self._injection_mw is None:
-            try:
-                self._injection_mw = crawler.get_downloader_middleware(
-                    InjectionMiddleware
-                )
-            except AttributeError:
-                for component in crawler.engine.downloader.middleware.middlewares:
-                    if isinstance(component, InjectionMiddleware):
-                        self._injection_mw = component
-                        break
-            if self._injection_mw is None:
-                raise RuntimeError(
-                    "Could not find the InjectionMiddleware among enabled "
-                    "downloader middlewares. Please, ensure you have properly "
-                    "configured scrapy-poet."
-                )
-        cls = self._injection_mw.registry.page_cls_for_item(request.url, cls) or cls
+        cls = self.injector.registry.page_cls_for_item(request.url, cls) or cls
         if cls in self._tracked_auto_fields:
             return
         self._tracked_auto_fields.add(cls)
diff --git a/tests/test_providers.py b/tests/test_providers.py
index 774cb292..1f8dce8a 100644
--- a/tests/test_providers.py
+++ b/tests/test_providers.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import sys
+from collections import defaultdict
 
 import pytest
 
@@ -1054,17 +1055,45 @@ async def test_auto_field_stats_no_override(mockserver):
     """When requesting an item directly from Zyte API, without an override to
     change fields, stats reflect the entire list of item fields."""
 
+    from scrapy.statscollectors import MemoryStatsCollector
+
+    duplicate_stat_calls = defaultdict(int)
+
+    class OnlyOnceStatsCollector(MemoryStatsCollector):
+
+        def track_duplicate_stat_calls(self, key):
+            if key.startswith("scrapy-zyte-api/auto_fields/") and key in self._stats:
+                duplicate_stat_calls[key] += 1
+
+        def set_value(self, key, value, spider=None):
+            self.track_duplicate_stat_calls(key)
+            super().set_value(key, value, spider)
+
+        def inc_value(self, key, count=1, start=1, spider=None):
+            self.track_duplicate_stat_calls(key)
+            super().inc_value(key, count, start, spider)
+
+        def max_value(self, key, value, spider=None):
+            self.track_duplicate_stat_calls(key)
+            super().max_value(key, value, spider)
+
+        def min_value(self, key, value, spider=None):
+            self.track_duplicate_stat_calls(key)
+            super().min_value(key, value, spider)
+
     class TestSpider(Spider):
         name = "test_spider"
         url: str
 
         def start_requests(self):
-            yield Request(self.url, callback=self.parse)
+            for url in ("data:,a", "data:,b"):
+                yield Request(url, callback=self.parse)
 
         def parse(self, response: DummyResponse, product: Product):
             pass
 
     settings = create_scrapy_settings()
+    settings["STATS_CLASS"] = OnlyOnceStatsCollector
     settings["SCRAPY_POET_PROVIDERS"] = {ZyteApiProvider: 0}
     settings["ZYTE_API_AUTO_FIELD_STATS"] = True
     settings["ZYTE_API_URL"] = mockserver.urljoin("/")
@@ -1080,6 +1109,7 @@ def parse(self, response: DummyResponse, product: Product):
             "(all fields)"
         ),
     }
+    assert all(value == 0 for value in duplicate_stat_calls.values())
 
 
 @ensureDeferred