OCaml: Matching with any negative

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Is there a way to get pattern matching to match my value with any negative number? It does not matter what the negative number is I just need to match with any negative.

I have accomplished what I want with this simple code:
let y = if(n < 0) then 0 else n in match y with 0 -> [] | _ -> [x] @ clone x (n - 1)

But I want to eliminate that if statement and just get it to check it as another case in the match statement

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