The Rangers trepidation Braga sensed after Europa League rethink from Gio van Bronckhorst

Glasgow's smiles better says the old saying yet Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s Rangers are going to have to go some distance to wipe away the frustrated frowns stretching round the city’s southside tomorrow night.

We’re heading towards summer but the dark clouds are refusing to shift from overhead at Ibrox.

From dreaming of a historic Europa League, Premiership and Scottish Cup treble just over a week ago, the Gers faithful are now contemplating a nightmare scenario.

Failure to beat Celtic at Hampden in Sunday’s cup semi-final would leave their Parkhead foes on course for a fifth domestic clean sweep in six years.

It’s been a breakneck collapse from a team that just nine months ago strolled to the title with a 25-point lead.

Now as they find themselves back in the subservient role they’d spent a decade battling to escape, the stern faces and tense looks worn throughout the journey have returned.

The fact that European progress is also hanging in the balance after Rangers allowed Braga to chisel out a 1-0 lead at their quarter-final foes’ striking Quarry home last week has now done nothing to relieve the tension.

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But while the pressure levels rise for Rangers, Braga boss Carlos Carvalhal’s side