Toulon crush Sale Sharks

Toulon thrashed Sale Sharks as they took their fourth win in the Heineken Cup this season.

Frederic Michalak, in the starting lineup in place of Jonny Wilkinson, led Toulon to a comfortable lead at half-time, scoring one of the French team's tries, kicking two conversions and a penalty.

Toulon kept command of the game in the second half, Joe van Niekerk extending their lead to 24 points with the third try of the game.

Some ill-discipline saw both sides down to 14 men after Fraser McKenzie and Simon Shaw were sin-binned within five minutes of each other.

The home side kept pushing throughout the game, running in a total of nine tries.

Toulon top Pool 6 with a 100% record, while Sale remain third.