article_snippet.sent: The 26-year-old slots the ball through the legs of the onrushing Celta Vigo goalkeeper Sergio Alvarez .
article_snippet.sent: The game was the perfect tonic for anyone who had sat through Arsenal v Chelsea earlier on Sunday.
article_snippet.sent: Both sides flew forward from the off and Both sides ambition was rewarded though for Real Madrid the reward was ultimately far greater.
article_snippet.sent: Both sides fell behind after nine minutes when former Barcelona player Nolito took advantage of poor Real Madrid defending.
article_snippet.sent: And without Sergio Ramos Rafael Varane, Alvaro Carvajal and Asier Illaramendi all failed to stop former Barcelona player Nolito as former Barcelona player Nolito tricked former Barcelona player Nolito way in from the left-hand channel and shot past Iker Casillas.
article_snippet.sent: Rodriguez was involed in the build-up
article_snippet.sent: but Rodriguez still had plenty to do when Rodriguez received the ball cutting in from the right to shoot past Sergio Alvarez.
article_snippet.sent: Celta Vigo, hoping to do their former coach Luis Enrique a big favour, did not retreat and their were level on the half hour when 19-year-old Santi Mina raced away from Real Madrid’s defence on to a pass from Fabian Orellana.
article_snippet.sent: The teenager scored from the rebound after Fabian Orellana first shot came back off the post.
article_snippet.sent: Double goal scorer on the night Hernandez (right) tries to round a diving Celta goalkeeper Sergio Alvarez (left) Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo (left)
article_snippet.sent: fights for the ball against Celta's Augusto Fernandez but was unable to add to Celta's Augusto Fernandez impressive tally .
article_snippet.sent: The game was chaotic in every sense and Sergio Ramos and Joaquin Larrivey
article_snippet.sent: Cristiano Ronaldo played in James Rodriguez and Cristiano Ronaldo deflected shot beat a diving Celta goalkeeper Sergio Alvarez
article_snippet.sent: (left) Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo (left) to leave Celta Vigo going down the tunnel at half time stunned to have played so well in attack and yet still find themselves behind.
article_snippet.sent: themselves front three of ex-Barça B forward Nolito
article_snippet.sent: , journeyman centre-forward Larrivey and teenage prospect Mina, aided by Orellana, had run Real’s back four ragged and themselves kept the pressure up in the second half.
article_snippet.sent: It was Orellana who wend down under a challenge from behind from Kroos at the start of the second half but the referee was unmoved by the home side’s appeals.
article_snippet.sent: Real pay Cristiano Ronaldo but the two sides were inevitable leaving the two sides wide open on the counter and the two sides were also tiring badly.
article_snippet.sent: It was perhaps the fatigue that meant the two sides allowed Sergio Ramos to bring the ball out from the back without a Celta player anywhere near a Celta player.
article_snippet.sent: Sergio Ramos picked out Hernandez with a long pass forward and Sergio Ramos controlled a long pass forward with Sergio Ramos first touch before slotting past Alvarez with an emphatic second.
highlights_snippet.sent: Although the home side levelled four minutes later the tie was put to bed after goals from James Rodriguez and another from Javier Hernandez .