Kim Min-su’s stat sheet since making the big-money move to Rangers over the summer should be the kind of thing that makes a manager legitimately wonder if both he and the club have been taken for a ride.

Twelve games, zero goals, zero assists. A rank-rotten return, on the face of it. So why does Derek McInnes not seem even remotely concerned by the whole palaver?

Well, simply put, he has a set of eyes. He, like everyone else, can clearly see that the South Korean is the heartbeat of everything that has been good about Rangers in an attacking sense ever since he was thrown into the team – even if the numbers don’t quite back it up.

It was the same story in yesterday’s hard-fought – but deserved – 2-0 win away at St Mirren.

It was hard to keep track of the number of times Min-su drifted in from the left-hand side to pick up possession with no opposition player within five yards. That’s not luck, it’s intelligence.

There is nobody playing in Scotland’s top flight more adept at taking the ball on the turn and driving into space either.

St Mirren couldn’t get near him for the majority of the first hour. They aren’t the first side to experience such difficulties, and they won’t be the last.

In full flight, he is a joy to watch operating in that pocket between the opposition midfield and defence.

It’s the bit after that where things start to become a little trickier for the talented 20-year-old.

He squandered a couple of opportunities to open his account here. The first came after playing a neat one-two with James Penrice late in the first half, with the ball sitting up perfectly for him ten yards out to smash home.

The choice to take one touch too many allowed Declan John to clear the danger.

So much of his game is based on instinct. Indeed, it’s a big part of what makes him such captivating viewing. But his decision-making in front of goal needs a lot of work.

Perhaps he’s guilty of overthinking things too much.

His manager certainly thinks so, admitting post-match that he felt Min-su was becoming ‘obsessed’ with registering his first goal for the club. In key moments, that shows.

A heavy touch early in the second period after being played in by Badredine Bouanani – unusually quiet here on the right – once again suggested he is feeling the pressure.

But let’s not forget, he’s essentially a kid trying to find his feet in a new country, and in a league which couldn’t be more different in terms of speed and style from what he was used to in Spain.

That he has actually managed to settle in so seamlessly should be applauded. It can’t have been an easy transition but he has quickly endeared himself to the supporters.

It’s why they are every bit as desperate as the player himself to get the monkey off his back.

They needn’t worry. If he keeps doing what he’s doing, the goals will come. Of that there is no doubt.

Some context has to be attached to his failure to notch an assist too. It’s a misleading stat, given that it depends entirely on someone else putting the ball away when it counts.

Min-su created multiple chances for his team-mates in Paisley, the best of which saw Kevin Kelsy put through on goal. It’s hardly his fault that the big man fluffed his lines. The Venezuelan has been in good form but had a stinker here.

At some point, everything will come together for Min-su. And it’s not as if he didn’t have an impact in both of Rangers’ goals against St Mirren.

It may have gone unnoticed amongst everything else, but he absolutely busted a gut to get himself into the box in the build-up to Dan Neil’s deflected strike which sealed the points on 61 minutes. That willingness to put the hard yards in off the ball is every bit as impressive as his ability on it.

And it was his pass to Penrice which led to the full-back being clipped by Samuel Ramos inside the box to give Rangers the opportunity to go ahead from the penalty spot early in the first half.

In truth, they may have been a little fortunate to do so. Put it this way, had referee Nick Walsh not given it, there’s not a chance in hell that VAR would have got involved.

Ryan Naderi stepped up to slot into the bottom corner to take his tally to nine for the season in all competitions.

It says a lot about where Naderi's head is that he had the confidence to do so, especially after blowing a great chance from six yards out only moments before. The German-born Czech international is a changed man, all right.

Speaking of confidence, there is no shortage of it at the other end of the park either. At times, the defensive pairing of Olwethu Makhanya and Emmanuel Fernandez look like they’re playing five-a-sides.

It’s usually the latter who throws in the odd lapse of concentration to add some peril to proceedings, but yesterday it was the normally dependable Makhanya’s turn to give his manager a few hairy moments. Thankfully for the South African, St Mirren couldn’t take advantage.

Craig McLeish’s men could have no complaints over the final result but could have made things interesting late on had either Eseosa Sule or Calvin Ramsay finished from close range.

It’s now just one win in nine for the Buddies, who – much like last season – just can’t seem to put the ball in the back of the net consistently. That problem plagued them so much that they ended up in the relegation play-off spot last year.

McLeish has done an excellent job since taking over from Stephen Robinson. A far better one than anyone could have possibly predicted. He has changed the style of this team completely in a very short space of time and so you have to trust he will be able to find a solution to their goalscoring issues too.

Rangers might be 13 points better off but they head into the international break also in search of that perfect balance.

When they’re on it, they’re very good. But they are still not commanding games from start to finish with any sort of regularity.

They won’t necessarily have to be pleasing on the eye to end up with their hands on the Premiership trophy come May. Celtic’s triumph last season proved that.

The Rangers supporters will gladly put up with imperfect displays for the next six months if that’s going to be the end result.

And if the likes of Min-su can hit the goal trail sometime soon, there’s a decent chance that’s exactly how things will play out.