Colombia goalkeeper David Ospina, of French Ligue 1 club Nice, has been ruled out for six weeks with a knee injury picked up last weekend.

Nice coach Claude Puel confirmed on Tuesday that Ospina had suffered a twisted right knee and had partially ruptured the internal lateral ligaments in Sunday's 2-1 defeat at the hands of Bordeaux.

Ospina will miss his team's trip to Paris Saint-Germain on Saturday and is likely to be out until mid-December.

He will also miss Colombia's upcoming friendlies against Belgium and the Netherlands, but there will be relief for Ospina that the injury is not more serious as he tries to hold down a place in his national team ahead of next year's World Cup in Brazil.

Ospina played in all of Colombia's fixtures as his team finished second in South American qualifying behind Argentina.