FROM NEIL DOHERTY IN GLASGOW: CELTIC put on a five-star show to beat St Johnstone in front of less than 15,000 fans at Parkhead in the League Cup quarter final – but hat-trick hero Kris Commons reckon there will be more fans if the Hoops get Rangers in the next round.
Rangers face Inverness on tonight and Commons is keen on a derby fixture.
He hit two first half goals and a second half penalty – with Hooper and Mulgrew chipping in with a goal each for Celtic last night as they erased the league defeat to Killie at the weekend.
Asked about a possible tie with Rangers, Kris said: “They are great for Glasgow, great for Scotland. I love playing against them, for me it would be magic.”
He admitted the players are missing the derby matches since Rangers’ expulsion to Division 3.
“There’s nothing like playing in a Glasgow derby, they bring that added spice, we’re obviously dealing without them, but as far as derbies and big games go, they don’t get much bigger,” he said.
Commons said the weekend defeat was playing on the players’ minds.
“There’s a certain requirement when we play, not just for ourselves, but for the fans and the club,” he explained.
“We can’t play like we did in the Camp Nou and then put on a performance like we did at the weekend, that was to try and rectify what happened at the weekend, we knew we let a lot of people down.
“We’re going to drop points, there’s going to be days we don’t quite hit the back of the net, there’s a way and manner you need to go out an lose the game, you need to show you want to win, you put in a shift, we went out there on Saturday and gave Kilmarnock too much respect. Probably one of the easiest games they’ll ever play.
“There’s a way you lose, you come off the park with dignity and we came off the park feeling we had let a lot of people down.”
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