- This is the second World Cup in succession that Germany have failed to get out of their group, suffering the same fate in Russia in 2018.
This is from BBC sports. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/63829138
I learnt that you can use "where" instead of "in which," but that you can't use "that", except for some exceptions such as "place". These are examples.
- Sydney is the city in which I was born.
- Sydney is the city where I was born.
- Sydney is the city that I was born.
I learnt that 1 and 2 are possible while 3 is ungrammatical, but that the word, "place", on the other hand, is some of the exceptions, which makes all four below possible.
- Sydney is the place in which I was born.
- Sydney is the place where I was born.
- Sydney is the place that I was born.
- Sydney is the place I was born.
This is what I have learnt so far at school.
Germany have failed to get out of their group in the World Cup. So, I believe the sentence should be either
- This is the second World Cup in succession in which Germany have failed to get out of their group, suffering the same fate in Russia in 2018.
or
- This is the second World Cup in succession where Germany have failed to get out of their group, suffering the same fate in Russia in 2018.
The first sentence I found in BBC does not accord with what I learnt at school. Is it grammatically correct to say that this is the second World Cup in succession that Germany have failed to get out of their group?