The start of the second half was delayed by eight minutes and the players taken back into the tunnel as fans behind Carlo Cudicini’s goal covered part of the pitch with rolls of toilet tissue, and other missiles were hurled at Claudio Ranieri’s men.

“The night is soured when things like that happen,” said Lampard. “Things were thrown on to the pitch and it was lucky that nobody was hurt. We had bundles of coins coming at us, even in the warm-up.

“I am sure UEFA have got legislation to deal with this and it is about time they did something about it.”

UEFA switched this game from Istanbul in the interests of safety following recent terrorist attacks there and John Terry compared the experience to playing for England in Turkey in their final Euro 2004 qualifier in October.

“It was pretty similar to Turkey but this was one of the most hostile crowds I have ever played in front of,” said defender Terry. “It is not good for football and they should definitely do something about it. It seems to be part of their football and it is not nice but thankfully nobody got hurt.

“They had 50,000 fans here but we went out and did a great job. We knew what to expect and fortunately it didn’t affect us at all. When we were taken back into the tunnel we were very focused and ready to go.”

Hasselbaink revealed how the atmosphere gave Chelsea added incentive and said: “It gave us a boost to do even better and be even more calm. We knew they would try to provoke us and we did really well. It is not nice being spat at but what can you do – you cannot fight 50,000 people.”

Terry and Marcel Desailly were accused by Besiktas manager Mircea Lucescu of deliberately elbowing Ilhan Mansiz, but Terry added: “I just went up for a header and he came up from behind me, and maybe it is just the way I jumped. I apologise if I caught him, but I didn’t mean to – there was no intent.”