Barcelona have really picked form of recent,and are pushing it hard to remain at the second position they are, although they know it won't be possible to meet up the points Real Madrid have already accumulated this season.They are in the quater finals of the champions league and would want to do everything possible to get to the semi final knowing fully well that the champions league trophy is the only thing they stand to achieve now,as Madrid are already on the verge of claiming the Lalliga Tittle after Barca won it from them last season.
Yeah Barcelona has been trying to take over 2nd place for the last few weeks and their efforts are supported by Girona who have played poorly in the last 5 matches. Apart from that, Barcelona really needs to win in La Liga matches to increase their confidence when playing in the Champions League and Barcelona must be able to continue this positive trend until next month or before the UCL match. We know that fighting PSG is not easy, therefore Barcelona must prepare everything including player confidence.
In my opinion, this season Barcelona cannot compete with Real Madrid for 2 reasons, the first is that their defense is very bad imagine Barcelona conceding 34 goals in 29 matches or one of the worst among the top 6, Barcelona also needs a new striker to improve the attack this can be proven by the absence of Barcelona players on the top scorer list usually we always see one of the Barcelona players there and instead we saw 3 new names there.