This would pin the Turks against the river, as there was no bridge at Ramadi. The Turks had assumed that the British would repeat the tactics they used in July and organised their defences accordingly to cover an arc running from the east to the south of the town.
The Turks would be trapped along the riverbank due to the absence of a bridge in Ramadi. They believed the British would follow their previous July strategy, so they fortified their positions to protect an arc extending from the east to the south of the town.