Aye if you take a look at Spanish football, and Italian football there's a huge difference in playstyle. Spanish football is in general a passing game where you hopefully end up outplaying the defense giving you a huge scoring chance. Where Italitan football in general focusses a lot more on the defensive part of the game, breaking down their opponents attacks and throws leathal counter-attacks.
This is also seen amongst the spectators, if you take Holland/The Netherlands, their spectators are known not to be satisfied with a win, they want polished beautyful football on top of it. Where as most other nations' spectators are satisfied with a win.