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Toulouse climbed to fourth place in Ligue 1 after a flurry of late goals at Sochaux.
The match looked to be drifting towards a goalless draw until Daniel Congre broke the deadlock after 73 minutes.
Toulouse stretched their lead to 3-0, with Mauro Cetto netting and defensive colleague Congre scoring his second, before Sochaux replied in stoppage time through Geoffrey Tulasne.
All the goals were headers, and Toulouse's three came from set-pieces delivered by Paulo Machado.
The first period was mostly underwhelming, with Daniel Braaten and Antoine Devaux offering limited threat for Toulouse and Marvin Martin striking the crossbar with a free-kick strike for Sochaux with the best attempt of the half.
Sochaux went close early in the second period when Nigerian forward Brown Ideye forced an excellent low save from Mathieu Valverde.
Toulouse then began to exercise control over the match, starting from the point their Portuguese midfielder Machado cracked a shot against the crossbar from a free-kick.
They went close again after 71 minutes when Etienne Didot's fierce volley was turned aside for a corner by home goalkeeper Matthieu Dreyer.
The breakthrough came from the corner swept in by Machado, as Congre rose well to head in from close range.
Toulouse then won a free-kick wide on the left with 11 minutes remaining and Machado picked out Cetto who stooped to head beyond Dreyer and into the bottom right corner.
Machado threatened to score the third goal himself when he slalomed through the forlorn home defence but shot straight at Dreyer.
He was instead its architect, with his corner from the left finding Congre whose near-post flick header caught out Dreyer.
Tulasne's consolation hardly mattered. Martin crossed and Tulasne flung himself to head in.
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