It put a dampener on Rovers’ night despite going through to the UEFA Cup knockout stages.

Pedersen said: “I was hit by a plastic cup full of beer and you always worry that next time it could be something much worse. "It’s up to UEFA to do something to stop this sort of thing happening.

“I wasn’t hurt but my eyes and hair were full of beer.” Pedersen also escaped injury when a coin sailed over his head as he ducked to place the ball for a corner.

Team-mate Brett Emerton and boss Mark Hughes also had beer thrown at them by Feyenoord fans. Hughes said: “Morten handled it very well. He came off the pitch stinking of beer.

But he didn’t inflame the situation by making too much of it.”