Watch: Gedion Zelalem scores winner for Arsenal U-21s vs. Fulham

USA midfielder Gedion Zelalem scored the winner for Arsenal's U-21 side in a 1-0 triumph over Fulham.

Gedion Zelalem is starting his season with Arsenal's Under-21 side, and so far, so good.

Zelalem, the USA's 18-year-old midfield prospect, scored the game-winning goal for Arsenal against Fulham in the U-21 Gunners' season opener Friday, a 1-0 victory at Emirates Stadium in London.

Lining up against a pair of other young U.S. internationals–Fulham's Emerson Hyndman and Luca de la Torre–Zelalem opened his season account by finishing off a really well-worked team goal, completing a sequence that he started. After a series of intricate Arsenal passing, Zelalem was played into the box and finished with his right foot, reaching back and finding the lower right-hand corner of the net. Watch his goal below:

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“It was a good game,” Zelalem told Arsenal's website. “We had a lot of possession which we expected and they sat back in the first half. We couldn’t get a through ball in the first half but in the second half we kept moving the ball, they got tired and eventually we got the goal.

"My goal came because I watch the first team a lot and they like to play quick one-twos on the edge of the box. Us youth-team players aspire to be like them so we try to play like them. It worked against Fulham and hopefully the fans enjoyed the goal."

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Zelalem started and went the distance for Arsenal, whose U-21s return to action Friday against Derby County. 

Zelalem was cleared by FIFA to play internationally for the USA ahead of the FIFA Under-20 World Cup in May, though that alone did not fully cap-tie him to the U.S. Zelalem was born in Germany to parents of Ethiopian descent and has previously been sought after by the German federation.