Do you ever get to claim civ win?

Can civ wins exist when players like Daut use Huns, the most restricted civ, in a stage of the game where a civ like Berbers, used by an equal like St4rk, was using the most pop efficient answers to them by simply using the optimal option at the optimal time? Civ matchup was essentially trounced by Daut’s game sense. Are there still matchups where a player can still claim that their civ is countered perfectly by someone else’s?