The home side appeared to wake up in the second half and Cristiano Ronaldo fired over after 50 minutes, although the home side continued to show few ideas in attack until Jese Rodriguez replaced Isco with just under 30 minutes remaining.
The youngster has been one of the Madrid players most in form in recent weeks and his entry into the game also sparked a reaction from the crowd, who had been very quiet for most of the night as their team huffed and puffed to little effect and Charles missed another golden opportunity to open the scoring, chipping wide when clean through on goal.
Two minutes later Jese gave the pass which set up Karim Benzema to score Madrid's first goal of the game after 67 minutes after good work from the youngster saw him square the ball across the face of goal to leave Benzema just needing to stick out a leg.
Ronaldo sealed the win and was able to dedicate his goal to former Portuguese star, Eusebio, who died Sunday, when he stabbed home from the edge of Celta's six-yard box with eight minutes to go and he added Madrid's third in injury time, after a cross from Gareth Bale, who came into the game as a late substitute after three weeks out as the result of a calf injury.
