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I'm scraping multiple sports betting websites in order to compare the odds for each match across the websites.

My question is how to identify match_id from a match that already exists in the DB but has team names written in a different way.
Please feel free to add any approaches even if they don't use dataframes or SQLite.

The columns for matches table are:
match_id: int, sport: string, home_team: string, away_team: string, date: string (dd/mm/YYY)

So for each new match I want to verify if it already exists in the DB.
New match = (sport_to_check, home_team_to_check, away_team_to_check, date_to_check)
My pseudo-code is like: