If your team is very hard to score against and you can stop the counter you will win most of your games even if you score 1 or two goals a game.

But if you let in a lot of goals your probably will lose most of your games. Because you will hardly ever be able to score enough goals to win a game.

My idea when I used to say we played a good game. Was always try to counter an opponent right after we won the ball. Before the opponent could transition to defense. If we could not start it by the third pass. Then we would play a possession game.

So it took a lot of hours on our practice field before I would say we played a good game.

A lot of people called the way we played the game the Italian way.