In this round of La Liga, Barcelona will play Real Sociedad at home, because Real Madrid has won the championship in advance, so Barcelona's remaining goal this season is to win the second place in La Liga. Before the game, the La Liga giants received good news that second-tier rivals Girona had been upset, dropping two points away to a 2-2 draw by Alaves.
In the last round, Girona beat Barcelona 4-2 at home, which made Xavi questioned again. Soon, though, Girona gave Barcelona a chance. In the away game against Alaves, Girona led twice, but unfortunately it was still a draw.
In this game, both teams scored very early, and Girona scored with a header from Garcia in the opening 4 minutes to lead the opponent 1-0 away from home. However, after only a few minutes, Alaves played an efficient counter-attack, and Guridi followed up to push the goal, and the score became 1-1.
Just before half-time, Dovbik made a clever back-heel pass and Herrera took advantage of the situation to give Girona a 2-1 lead. After that, the score did not change for a long time, and Girona was about to take away three points, but what he didn't expect was that in the 99th minute, Alaves seized a chance to scuffle, and finally made up for it with a header from Guridi to help the team draw 2-2.
In this game, Girona got off to a good start but didn't get a good result. This 2-2 could change the fate of the two teams of Girona and Barcelona at any time:
1. After this draw, although Girona continues to rank second, they are only 2 points ahead of Barcelona and will be overtaken and fall to third place at any time;
2. Next, as long as Barcelona beats Real Sociedad at home, they will regain the top two and seize the initiative.
This season, Girona is a super dark horse in La Liga, they once had a chance to compete with Real Madrid for the title, but unfortunately after the season, Girona lost points away from home one after another, during which they lost to Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao, Mallorca, Getafe and Atletico Madrid in a row and suffered five consecutive defeats, making them completely lose hope of competing for the title. However, if they can finish second, Girona will still have the best result in La Liga history.
Although they are out of contention, Barcelona will still try to finish in the top two, because it is about whether they can participate in next season's Spanish Super Cup. Once they miss out on qualifying for the Spanish Super Cup, Barcelona will lose at least 6 million euros. For Barcelona, which is in financial crisis, this is definitely a huge amount of money. In any case, Barcelona must finish in the top two, otherwise they will really fail this season!