Orlando City is looking to bounce back at home this weekend against Sporting Kansas City after a difficult two-game road trip against Toronto FC and the Houston Dynamo. Head Coach Jason Kreis is preparing his men to jump over the mental hurdle thrown at them last week and use their anger and disappointment in their loss as fuel on the field.

Sporting Kansas City won’t be an easy victory. They are in second place in the Western Conference, equal in points with first place FC Dallas (but Dallas has two games in hand). They dropped their match against Minnesota United last weekend, and striker Dom Dwyer, who has scored a majority of the team’s goals, will be missing the match in Orlando due to yellow card accumulation. But that won’t make this a walk in the park Orlando.

“A very organized team, a team that looks like it’s been together for quite awhile now, and a majority of the players have been with the same coach and so I think they have a very clear identification of who they are and what they’re trying to do,” Kreis said after training this week. “So, a very dangerous opponent for us this weekend.”

Dwyer, who spent half of the 2013 USL season with Orlando City, will miss Saturday’s match due to yellow card accumulation. The star striker, who has scored five goals this season, has also earned five yellow cards in his first ten matches. Kreis said that the absence of Dwyer is likely to have an effect on the team, but it won’t shut down their attack.

“You tend to think that someone who is that important for them and their leading goal scorer, they guy they look to to score the majority of their goals being out, it’s always going to have an effect,” Kreis said. “But we have to be careful that we don’t relax about that situation because I’m sure whoever plays in his spot will be a quality player as well.”

Kreis has a lot of experience playing against Sporting Kansas City, given that they are one of the rivals of Real Salt Lake. He doesn’t believe that rivalry is at all relevant to the match in Orlando, but he said that he knows the kind of physicality that Sporting Kansas City brings to matches and he’s hoping to instill a similar mentality in his own players.

“It was always incredible intense affairs, incredibly competitive, and physical. It would get physical in a hurry. And that was led by when they changed coaches and got into a new stadium, they acquired a new sense of competitiveness and combativeness and doing whatever it took to get results,” Kreis said. “That’s our objective now here in Orlando, we’re trying to do the same thing. We’re trying to influence our players, and get players, and have everyone buy into the fact that we should be willing to do whatever it takes to win games.”