Before and after the dismissal: an event-window scorecard
A careful way to read shots, goals and possession around a red card without mistaking sequence for causation. A red card looks like a clean before-and-after story: one side loses a player, so the numbers should move. But a match is never reset at the dismissal. The team may already be ahead, behind, under pressure, or producing fewer attacks than its opponent. A useful scorecard asks a narrower question: what changed in bounded windows around the dismissal, and what was the score when it happened? This event-window approach separates timing from interpretation. It records shots, goals and possession before and after the card, uses comparable denominators, and keeps match state visible. It can describe a response; it cannot, on its own, prove that the red card caused every later change. TL;DR: Treat the red card as a timestamp, not a reset. Compare bounded before-and-after windows, preserve score and context, pair counts with minutes observed, and describe sequence without claiming cau...