"Most sides cannot, or are so overwhelmed by the challenge of coping with City’s movement they are too befuddled to take advantage when they do generate openings – or, rather, openings to generate openings – which is why City have the second-best defensive record in the league but they have conceded in each of their last three games." (The Guardian.)
Is the conjunction "that" ellipted between "movement" and "they are too..." in the sentence above?
Yes.
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