Kris Commons will resume penalty kicks tomorrow night should the situation arise where Celtic are offered the chance to score from the spot.

 

There have been two penalties missed by the Parkhead side in their two meetings with Dundee United between last weekend and on Sunday.

Leigh Griffiths missed one at Tannadice while James Forrest, having argued the toss with John Guidetti over who would take it at Hampden, hit a trickle of a shot straight down the line.

Commons, assuming he is on the park, will be in charge of any penalties Celtic get in open play tomorrow night - but he has also echoed Hoops boss Ronny Deila by insisting that it is unseemly for players to be bickering over who is responsible for the set-piece.

Guidetti huffed his way up the tunnel as soon as the whistle sounded at full-time at Hampden after coming off second best to Forrest, but the Swede later re-appeared, camera in hand to take 'selfies' of the celebratory scenes.

Commons, though, has warned that there should be no ambiguity over who is on penalty duty.

"If I was on I would have taken it," said Commons. "Leigh missed one last week, Anthony Stokes has missed one recently and then we missed one on Sunday.

"But it is not a nice sight to see when you have two guys in the same team who are arguing about who is going to take it.

"It doesn't leave the kicker in a good frame of mind to go and take it - and then you see that James goes up and he'll know that he could have done better with his penalty.

"That kind of squabbling definitely affects the team. It isn't good.

"I'll be taking any that we get, so long as I am on the park."

Meanwhile, Commons believes that if Celtic were to realise their ambitions of securing a domestic Treble this season it would put the current crop of players in illustrious company.

Citing the Martin O'Neill era when the Irishman led the club to a clean sweep in his inaugural season, Commons believes that Ronny Deila's squad has not cost anywhere near the same amount to assemble - although he did acknowledge that the league itself has been diluted in the last 15 years.

Nevertheless, he is well aware that by becoming just the fourth team in the club's history to take all three trophies on offer would enable them to write their own chapter into the history books.

"It is a long time since the club has won a Treble so it shows you just how rare an achievement that it is," he said. "You need to be so consistent.

"If you go through the Celtic team that won the Treble under Martin O'Neill the budget would have been significant.

"Guys like John Hartson, Chris Sutton, Alan Thompson and Neil Lennon were all big players in the Premiership before coming to Celtic, yet the club were able to go out and get them.

"There isn't the same chance to do that now.

"We are in a different period, but I do think that we are a younger team then they were, we are fitter, we are fresher but we would love to put ourselves into that bracket. To achieve what they did would be amazing.

"Those guys are legends at the club. They are still revered by the Celtic supporters because of what they achieved so for us to go out and win a Treble and follow in their footsteps would be something special.

"It is there for us. We can do it but I think we need to be wary of thinking that we are closing in it because there is still an awful lot of football to be played."

For Commons himself the chance to close the season with silverware is something that he might not have envisaged only a few months ago.

Back in January when he hauled off his boots and launched them into the crowd following a protracted fall-out with the club over a contract, it seemed his time at the club was up.

Since then, however, he has cleared the air with Deila and appears to be willing to do the work on the park that his manager requested.

And Commons has admitted that while his time under the Norwegian's reign did not begin the way he would have liked it, he is optimistic that it can end in celebratory mode.

"It has been a real rollercoaster of a season for me," he said.

"There has been ups and downs both personally and as a team. We were gutted when we failed to make the group stages of the Champions League.

"It was a real disappointment because we all know how special those nights are and the fall-out from that meant our league form was then very erratic.

"Personally, I was in and out of the team, I had all the contract stuff going on but I feel really settled, I am enjoying the challenge here and as a team you can see how much we have improved.

"We have just won the League Cup without conceding a goal and the confidence within the team is high.

"Defensively, we have improved, in terms of attack we are always going to be a threat but it was important that we tried to get our act together at the back and we have gone some way to doing that."