The Blegian Football Federation revealed that the centre-back would not be present on Sunday due to illnes.
However, far from go along with the official version of events, the Chelsea striker humerously replied "illness = he drank too much last night".
The post quickly went viral, something that is unlikely to have gone down too well with Alderweireld.
15 July 2018
Batshuayi quickly deleted his reply, but not quickly enough for it to escape the attention of eagle-eyed members of the Twitterati.