James delighted to get on Real Madrid scoresheet for Rayo win

Real Madrid midfielder James Rodriguez was delighted to score in victory at Rayo Vallecano.

It was James' first start since recovering from a foot injury.

He said: "We've put in two good games and we have to keep it up. To win you also have to come though difficult moments, but we got the victory and that's the most important thing. I'm happy, because we won and we picked up all three points at a pretty difficult ground to go to."

"In the first half, they played with a lot of intensity. We knew that they would be a little tired later on and that they wouldn't press to the same degree, and that was the case."

"When there are good players we all have to be focused and on our mettle, it's the coach who's in charge. We have good players like Modric, Kroos and then Isco came on today and helped us a lot in the midfield. It was a stonewall penalty on Cristiano, but thankfully it didn't have much of an influence."