WASHINGTON. Oct 9 Roy Lassiter put aside his legal troubles and scored the winning

goal Sunday as the Untied States rallied from a three goal deficit to defeat Saudi Arabia 4-3 in an exhibition match, reports AP

Lassiter, who faces a court date Monday to answer 3 year-old charges of breaking and entering and forgery, headed in Tab Ramos cross from close range in the 67th minute.

"I don't know what the outcome is going to be.” the 26-year-old forward said of his court date early Monday morning in Raleigh. North Carolina I have faith and confidence in the Lord that he'll take care of what might happen to me. I Just want to go and tell my side of the story to the Judge

Lassiter, who came on as a substitute In the first half to make only his third appearance with the US team, also had the assist when he passed to Ramos for the ty

mg goal in the 63rd minute

Deiender Alexj Lalas (36th minute) and striker Joe Max Moore 149th) also scored for the Americans, who fell be hind 3-0 before the game was 30 minutes old

US Soccer Federation officials said they believed it was the first time the US na tlonal team has rallied from three goals down to win a full international. They victory was also the latest tn umph for first-year coach Steve Sampson who earlier thia year led the team to a surprising fourth place in the Co pa America

The Saudis played with more aggression than we did in the first half." Sampson said You can't, at this level, take that amount of time to get into a game "

The last time Lassiter scored for the United States — in a 2-1 victory over Benfica of Portugal in the Parmalat Cup in August — it caught the attention of a Raleigh police detective who remembered the outstanding warrants against the former North Carolina State star

Lassiter who has spent | most of the last three years ' playing for a First Division I team In Costa Rica was ar- j rested and freed on dlrs I 5,000 bond, and is likely to get probation when he ap pears before a judge in Raleigh on Monday.

Returning to the site of I the their biggest World Cup 1 victory — a 1-0 upset of , Belgium — the Saudis used crisp passing around a lethargic US defence to build a 3-0 lead

The goals came from three members of that World Cup squad — Sami Al-Jaber (8th) Fahad Maheiel (11th) and Saeed Owalran (29th) Owalran. who netted the game-winner in the Belgium game, converted a penalty after Al-Jaber was brought down by goalkeeper Brad Friedel

The match attended by 10 216 fans was the first on a Saudi world tour that includes a match against Mexico in Los Angeles on Wednesday followed by two games In Japan and one in South Korea