Cape Verde’s Logan Costa (4 and 10) and Tess Dallinga of the Netherlands (23 and 31) scored twice in the first half as the Southern side clinched the title early ahead of French President Emmanuel Macron and 78,000 spectators.
Ludovic Plus reduced the gap in the second half from the penalty spot (75), before Moroccan Zakaria Abu quickly restored the gap to four goals (79).
This is the biggest difference in a Coupe de France final since Saint-Etienne’s victory against Nantes also in 1970 (5-0).
Last year, Nantes ended a title drought that had lasted since winning the domestic league in 2001, beating Nice 1-0 in the final. He was chasing his fifth title in the cup competition, which he also won in 1979, 1999 and 2000.
Costa opened the scoring with a header from a corner kick by Dutchman Branko van den Bomen (4), and the second added a header as well with a cross from the latter’s citizen, Stein Springs, who reached the ball after a bad distraction from the defense for a free kick (10).
Dalinga scored the third goal after a magnificent curling ball hit Chilean Gabriel Suasso’s long-range right lane in the box and followed him into the net (23).
This is Dallinga’s fourteenth goal with Toulouse this season.
Toulouse became the first team to score at least four goals in the first half of the Coupe de France final since Lille against Bordeaux in 1955, according to statistics site ‘Opta’.
A quarter of an hour from the end, Nantes receives a penalty after being the victim of a foul from Dane Rasmus Nikolaisen on Fabian Santos.
But Toulouse quickly responded with a missile strike from Abou Khallal from outside the area in the youth roof (79), taking his total to 9 goals with his team this season.
This defeat adds to the suffering of Nantes, champions of France 8 times, this season, as they struggle in the local league to avoid relegation to the second degree by finishing in sixteenth place without winning any of their last nine matches , unlike Toulouse, who seem to be in a good position to remain among the adults.
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