The Orlando Pride are preparing for its third match this week--and will get a major boost on Saturday when the team gets its star forward Alex Morgan back on the pitch.

The cards seem to be coming together for the Pride (4-4-3, 15 points) who have won three of the last four games.  

The team is scoring more and at ease. They’ve earned a come from behind win on Wednesday against Sky Blue FC, which helped fuel the momentum. And now, they get one of their best players, Alex Morgan, back for Saturday’s contest against Chicago.

“Everyone knows her quality and we are obviously aware and she’s been working hard to get back and doing all her fitness and touches and just really pushing herself at training. So it’s so nice having a player like that coming back into the squad,” defender Steph Catley said Friday after practice.

Morgan has been training with the team for two weeks but hasn’t played in a full match for roughly seven weeks. She injured her hamstring while playing in the Champions League with Lyon. Coach Tom Sermanni’s goal is to ease her in to the game Saturday.

“Probably bring her on somewhere between 20-30 minutes to go, when the tempo of the game has died a little bit and it gives her a chance to get in the game and actually get some game time under her belt,” Sermanni said of playing Morgan.

Morgan will join a red hot squad that has won three of the last four matches.

“Chioma (Ubogau) scored, Jasmyn (Spencer) has scored, Rachel (Hill) scored, Alex is obviously going to score, Marta scored, Camila scored—so all of a sudden you have five or six players who are capable of scoring on a regular basis and that’s a huge asset.”

“Yeah, I mean halfway through the season we’ve had our bad games, we’ve had our good games so I think now we are hitting that stride and we’re going on a high right now,” Pride Forward Rachel Hill explained.

The Pride has a huge opportunity to close the gap between them and Saturday’s opponent in the NWSL standings.

 “If we can get a positive result this weekend we are right in touch the top of the league, we’ll be three points behind Chicago who are currently in second place,” Sermanni said.

The Pride host Chicago Red Stars Saturday at 5:00 p.m.