Unfortunately Girona did not take advantage of this moment well, they had to accept defeat against Villarreal. If Girona can still win this match, they should still be in second place on the standings. It can be seen that Girona has tried hard to get a goal in this match. Girona repeatedly tried to shoot towards the Villarreal goal but still had difficulty penetrating Filip Jörgensen's defense. Girona still has two matches that will determine whether they can reclaim second place or not.
Girona played as usual, controlled possession of the ball and would have had many attempts but this time their finishing was very poor because of the 5 shots on target, none of them managed to become a goal. However, Girona only conceded one goal, so it also shows how Girona is trying to guard its goal to concede more balls, but failing to complete every attempt is a bad thing for Girona this time.
The fight for second place might not be interesting except for Barcelona, who as defending champions, would look very bad if they only ended up below a team like Girona, which has only been able to become a competitive team this season.
and it happened again, as I said, even though initially they were favorites to get the La Liga title this season, they ultimately failed and managed to be locked in by Real Madrid, but after that Girona was favored as runner up and I said, no matter how hard Girona tries, it will ultimately fail and remain in under Barcelona.
reason is quite simple, whatever Girona does will not be able to replace Barcelona, which has greater experience and has many ways to get the runner up position at the end of the season.
this is quite fair for me because Girona doesn't need to get runner up just to look attractive because getting a ticket to the UCL next season has been a big thing throughout history and Girona only needs to maintain its current position and doesn't need to be too ambitious about chasing Barcelona position.
from the number of remaining matches, it can be seen who will succeed in sitting in the runner up position because Barcelona has 1 more match to be able to lock in the runner up position and Barcelona match schedule is also not too tough.
It looks like Girona should try to stay away from ATM because the difference of 5 points could be achieved by ATM and Girona just needs to make good use of the remaining 2 matches this season.