John Utaka burst through with the interval approaching but sent a dreadful effort way off target.
Pompey continued to battle on and John Utaka hit the crossbar but the visitors, ultimately, proved too strong.
Enckelman's suspect handling was exposed when he failed to hold John Utaka's low right-wing cross and striker Kanu capitalised.
In came left-back Nadir Belhadj for his first start, and winger John Utaka was included after shaking off a knee problem.
Chasing a two-goal deficit, the visitors withdrew John Utaka for on-loan striker Milan Baros, who was denied his first Portsmouth goal when Hart made a fine stop.
Influential winger John Utaka went off injured 10 minutes later.
But Carlisle then went and conceded a second penalty on 75 minutes, this time hauling John Utaka down in the box, and Yebda made no mistake with a pin-point finish.
The club have made it public that Kevin-Prince Boateng and John Utaka are negotiating moves away from Fratton Park, but Cotterill could have them at his disposal for the opening games of the season.
Suddenly, there was desperation in the air for Spurs and they were almost caught on the break by John Utaka, but he wasted the final pass and Luka Modric was able to recover.
Portsmouth wasted a chance to extend their lead shortly after the break when John Utaka wriggled into space but, when he was about to shoot, team-mate Pamarot ran into his path and shot high.
Giggs, who turns 36 on Sunday, netted with a free-kick three minutes from full-time for the fourth goal and his 100th in the Premier League, while John Utaka's spectacular scissors-kick hit the crossbar with a at the other end.
The full-back latched on to John Utaka's intelligent back heel inside the box and rifled his shot into Kompany as the ball looped over Given and on to the crossbar, with Ireland clearing the danger with Danny Webber poised to pounce.
Motherwell themselves have conceded just the one goal on their European travels this season, an injury-time penalty in Norway, but a real threat to that statistic will be Peter Utaka, younger brother of Portsmouth's John.
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