Barcelona is slowly starting to rise to strengthen their position in the standings, indeed at the moment chasing Madrid points is a difficult thing for Barcelona but at least they can end the season in runner up position later, I think Barcelona journey this season is quite interesting because we know that at At the beginning and middle of the season, Barcelona was thought to not be able to compete in the top 4, but in the end Xavi answered all that by bringing Barcelona back to the top level, Since the defeat to Madrid, I am quite doubtful that Girona can return to its best performance and maybe it's hard for them to get 3 points in that the match if you look at their performance in the last match was against Bilbao, now it looks like Girona will start to slow down and will no longer be as strong as they were at the start of the season.
Indeed and it would be quite ironic if they also advance to the next round in the Champions League. They got eliminated from the Copa del Rey, but they are still in two more competitions and the interesting part about all of this is that all the media and the people asked whether it is smart to still trust Xavi with this job ever since he said he would leave the club at the end of the season. Well, this is not an easy answer and if he keeps going like this I think everyone will wonder why they decided to part ways anyway.
But I don't think that Xavi was the right guy for that club anyway. To me it looks as if he has no clue how to develop young talents and this has always been one of the specialties of Barcelona. They had all these shooting stars in their team in the past. They do have some of those talents again, but there are much better coaches than Xavi who understand how to get the best out of these potential world stars.
But the season would be getting interesting if Real Madrid drops points again. Now it is a 5 points gap and that would not look all that unrealistic anymore for Barcelona.