Sochaux goalkeeper Teddy Richert was the hero for the unfashionable club from eastern France which was founded in 1928 as a works team for the Peugeot car factory and whose previous solitary Cup triumph was back in 1937.

Richert palmed away penalty efforts from Toifilou Maoulida and Ronald Zubar while Marseille counterpart Cedric Carrasso could only block Jeremie Brechet.

Marseille thought they had victory in the bag after Djbril Cisse headed an injury-time goal to hand the 10-time Cup champions a 2-1 lead.

Cisse rose at the left post on 97 minutes to head home an inch-perfect cross from Maoulida past a stranded Richert in the Sochaux goal.

But with just five minutes of injury time remaining, replacement Anthony Le Tallec rose unmarked in the Marseille box to head home a Stephane Pichot cross.

Regulation time had ended 1-1, Marseille taking a fifth minute lead through Cisse, who converted a brilliant move down the left.

Cisse found space inside the six-yard box to head home Samir Nasri's flick after good work from Taye Taiwo who got to the byline before feeding Nasri.

It was a frenetic opening and Cisse could have doubled the lead had he kept his head when presented with a run on goal three minutes later.

However, Cisse no longer has the blistering pace of his Auxerre days - having suffered two horrific leg breaks - and instead of taking on his man, he blazed high and wide from a difficult angle.

That miss could have proved costly as within a minute, Swiss international Sebastien Grax broke free at the other end and after some fine work his brilliant lob over the onrushing Cedric Carrasso agonisingly bounced back off the bar.

Still the action did not abate as Nasri tested Richert with a low shot on 11 minutes that the goalkeeper did well to hold down to his left.

Nasri and Cisse combined well 10 minutes from the break but Cisse's ball into the box was a little too high and Nasri - dubbed the new Zinedine Zidane by sections of the French media - tried to overplay the ball and his eventual shot was weak.

Jerome Leroy had a great chance just after the break to level the scores but his control let him down, forcing him into making an acrobatic overhead attempt on goal that ultimately came to nothing.

Sochaux piled on the pressure at the start of the secod period with Marseille looking to rely on the counter-attack.

However the eastern French club, Marseille actually came closer to doubling their lead in the early part of the second period but Mamadou Niang fierce drive was beaten away by Richert, who then did well to hold a shot from Frank Ribery.

A Sochaux equaliser may not have looked like coming but it did arrive at the mid-point of the half.

The excellent Leroy took down a long crossfield pass and crossed into the box where Beli-Moumouni Dagano powered a header past Carrasso, who seemed to think the ball would clear the bar and pulled his arm away, much to his embarassment as the net bulged.

Nasri could have won the game five minutes from normal time but fired just over the bar after creating space for himself with a neat step-over.