It's not going to be easy for RSL, heading out onto the road to play the Los Angeles Galaxy and the Houston Dynamo the next two weekends — an 18-game unbeaten streak, between them — but at least they'll catch a break.

The Galaxy's Landon Donovan and the Dynamo's Ricardo Clark both will miss the RSL games because they're playing for the United States national team in the FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa and won't be back until the end of the month.

Meanwhile, RSL doesn't expect to lose any players to national-team duty until midfielders Will Johnson and Jean Alexandre potentially get the call for Canada and Haiti, respectively, for the Gold Cup in July. And coach Jason Kreis is just fine with that, not having to deal with so many call-ups, even though it also can be viewed as RSL not having enough players who are good enough to play at the top international level.

“I look at it as a good thing, completely,” he said. “National teams, you're talking about other coaches opinions, and frankly, I don't care. I only care about my coaches' opinions of players.”