The Royal Belgian Football Association announced on Wednesday morning that the game had been cancelled because of security fears following the terrorist attacks in Brussels.

UEFA has insisted there are no plans to play matches at Euro 2016 behind closed doors in response to the increased security threat.

The Belgian suffered his injury setback late in the Capital One Cup semi-final win over Everton on Wednesday.

The influential City captain has missed his club’s last five games with a calf injury and was also declared unfit for international action by his club manager Manuel Pellegrini.

A 23-year-old defender from a lower-league football club has become the second Belgian player to die of cardiac arrest in less than two weeks.