In the last 5 matches in Laliga, Girona was only able to record 2 wins and suffered 3 defeats. Of course, their recent decline in performance has made them fail to compete with Real madrid. For Barcelona, of course they have the opportunity to take second place from Girona if Barcelona succeeds in beating Bilbao in today match.
In 2023 Girona was rocking and with the new year coming, bad results start to pop-up which continues to affect the team position in the table. With that defeat against Mallorca, they allowed Real Madrid to increase the gap with a point and gave Barcelona to take their position once they wik against Athletic Bilbao.
The only positive news for Girona players and fans, is that Barcelona result is still 0-0 vs Bilbao with almost 15 minutes left from the end of the game including injury time.
You says is true that since entering 2024 Girona performance is starting not too consistent and since January this year Girona have already to gets 3 loses including the loses from Mallorca today and compared to 2023 at that time Girona only gets 1 loses so these records is proven Girona failed to managed their consistency in this year but they are lucky because Barcelona only able to playing draw from Bilbao so this make Girona still at 2nd place but they only have 1 difference point above to Barcelona
And about the match Bilbao vs Barcelona before the match begin i was beware of Bilbao because this team was very consistent compared to their performance last season and now it is true that after in the first meeting Barcelona lost and today they can only get a draw from Bilbao and this result is make them failed to taking over 2nd place from Girona and for other hand after several times gets poor results Atletico Madrid finally can return to the winning ways again today that they can beat Betis with narrow scores and although playing without Griezmann but Atletico Madrid still can able to performing well but i can see the combination between Morata and Depay was became an the players who hard to guarded by Betis players because these players can threaten Betis defensive lines and the result is they can bringing Atletico Madrid to collect 3 points from this match