The New York Red Bulls' 2017 preseason will finish with this Desert Diamond Cup classification game against New England Revolution. For reasons that aren't entirely clear, this is the match-up to decide the fifth and sixth placed finishers in the six-team field. RBNY finished with the fourth-best record in the tournament, but winless NYCFC has been leapfrogged to the third-place playoff against Sporting Kansas City because...perhaps because this isn't a real tournament.
No team will lose any sleep over where it finished in the 2017 Desert Diamond Cup. The contestants simply want to get fit and ready for their respective MLS campaigns.