30-01-2025
From injury-plagued start to St Mirren's main man
Toyosi Olusanya is enjoying the most fruitful season of his career. And St Mirren fans should enjoy the striker while they can as a summer exit looks 27-year-old has resisted the club's attempts to extend his contract and manager Stephen Robinson admitted in November he was fighting a losing battle to keep him. Olusanya was on the money for St Mirren again last weekend, scoring the opener in a 3-0 victory at Aberdeen to take his season's goal tally in all competitions to 11. He is the club's top marksman by a distance - Oisin Smyth is next most prolific on four electric pace and strength are a key weapon for Robinson's side, but his Saints career has been a slow joined in summer 2022, only to suffer a catalogue of injury problems before being farmed out on loan to Arbroath. Last term - his his first full season with the Saints - the Englishman grew more impactful, netting seven goals in 42 season, he has blossomed, coming up with big goals in Conference League qualifying, the Premiership and Scottish seven goals put him at the top end of the scorer charts in the league - outside of the Old Firm, only Sam Dalby, Bruce Anderson and Simon Murray have netted shot conversion rate in the Premiership has also taken a leap from 15.4% last season to 17.1%, putting him among the top 12 players. Plus he's in the top 10 for touches in the opposition box and only two non-Old Firm players (Lawrence Shankland and Dalby) have had more. Olusanya has had 15 big chances in the league so far this term and scored seven of them. By way of comparison, recently departed Celtic striker Kyogo Furuhashi only scored nine from 26 chances while Daizen Maeda has five from 17. Since their return to the top flight in 2018, no St Mirren player has scored more than Jamie McGrath's 17-goal haul in season 2020-21. With nearly four months of the campaign remaining, might Olsanuya top that feat?
